Taxes Quotes - Page 20

• Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me.

  Simon Sinek

  Years, Answers, Clue

  "Measure Success: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.

  Simon Sinek

  Law, Purpose, Half

  "It’s Not Nice to Stab People" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He's a bully who wants to micro-manage people's lives by mandate, not persuasion.

  Mark Skousen

  New York, Cities, People

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• My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Father, People

  "Patti Smith: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. January 31, 2010.

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• I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

  Wesley Snipes

  Tax Evasion, Evasion

  "Actor Wesley Snipes reports to prison to begin sentence" by Michael Martinez, www.cnn.com. December 9, 2010.

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• Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Saving, Hyperinflation

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• It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Way, Wealth

  "Fiscal Cliff Debate Is About Size of Government, Not Taxing 'the Rich'" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 4, 2012.

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• The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

  Thomas Sowell

  Loss, Income, Benefits

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• The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.

  Thomas Sowell

  Moving, Office, Assumption

  "Fiscal Cliff Debate Is About Size of Government, Not Taxing 'the Rich'" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 4, 2012.

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• We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

  Herbert Spencer

  Freedom

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Principles of Ethics - Completed: Great Essays”, p.667, VM eBooks

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• Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Long, Levels, Eras

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• Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

  John Sununu

  Art, Wall, War

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• Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.

  John Sununu

  Views, Political, Trying

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• You walk into any supermarket or any shopping mall and ask the public what they are worried about. Not one of them will tell you they are worried about 12 years of Mitt Romney's tax returns.

  John Sununu

  Years, Shopping, Return

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• If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.

  James Surowiecki

  Needs, Making Money, Claims

  "Private Inequity". www.newyorker.com. January 30, 2012.

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• Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly.

  James Surowiecki

  Past, Years, Oil

  "Pump Pressure". www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2005.

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• Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons.

  James Surowiecki

  Government, Payroll Tax, Political

  "In Funds We Trust?". www.newyorker.com. December 24 & 31, 2012.

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• Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

  David Suzuki

  Scientist, Caps, Carbon Tax

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• Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

  David Suzuki

  Simple, Energy, Burning Fossil Fuels

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• An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Giving, World

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• I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

  Daniel Tammet

  Thinking, Stupidity, Lottery

  "This much I know" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.

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• Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Should Have, Choices

  Margaret Thatcher (1977). “Let our children grow tall: selected speeches, 1975-1977”

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• Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Income, Pay, Corporations

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• Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Truth, People, Matter

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• Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.

  Donald Trump

  Today, Increase, Tax Increases

  "ABC Grills Trump With Tough Questions, Provided Softballs for Dem Candidates in 2007". Interview with George Stephanopoulos, www.newsbusters.org. April 19, 2011.

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