Taxes Quotes - Page 29

• In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government bonds into fiat money, and the people lost over half of their monetary assets to the hidden tax of inflation. In the South, printing presses accomplished the same effect, and the monetary loss was total.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Loss, Government

  "The creature from Jekyll Island". Book by G. Edward Griffin, 1994.

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• The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Income, Firsts

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• During the fiscal year ending in 1861, expenses of the federal government had been $67 million. After the first year of armed conflict they were $475 million and, by 1865, had risen to one billion, three-hundred million dollars. On the income side of the ledger, taxes covered only about eleven per cent of that figure. By the end of the war, the deficit had risen to $2.61 billion. That money had to come from somewhere.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Government, Years

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• Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Land, Wish

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1891). “Church and State and Other Essays: Including Money; Man and Woman: Their Respective Functions; The Mother; A Second Supplement to the Kreutzer Sonata”

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• Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

  Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

  Statistics, Imbeciles, Lottery

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• The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We make it costly for employers to employ people; we subsidize people not to go to work We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

  Milton Friedman

  Long, People, Unemployment

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• Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the
  chief sources of danger....Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. We have to have that tariff to protect us against competition from abroad. We have to have that special provision in the tax code. We have to have that subsidy.

  Milton Friedman

  Competition, Special, Different

  "Defaming Milton Friedman" by Johan Norberg, reason.com. October 2008.

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• The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Government, Views, United States

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.143, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

  Bob Schaffer

  Growth, Economic, Burden

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• As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Income, Pay, Study

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• Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.

  Tony Abbott

  Helping, Mates, Helping Each Other

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• There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Fundamentals, Want

  Address to 'No Carbon Tax' rally, Canberra, August 16, 2011.

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• Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government

  Tony Abbott

  Government, Coalitions

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• The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.

  Tony Abbott

  Party, Election, Increase

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• There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.

  Tony Abbott

  Burden, Increase, Tax Burden

  Australia politics live with Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2015.

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• I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.

  Tony Abbott

  School, Thinking, Government

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta.

  Stephen Harper

  Responsibility, Fighting, Pension Plans

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• Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people who pay their bills, pay their taxes, expect from their political leaders.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, People, Leader

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• Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Men, Gun, Focus

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• Evidence is mounting that faith-based service programs are often more successful than other programs in correcting social problems. [It is wrong] for government to demand that religious nonprofits gut precisely that part of their program [funded through tax dollars] that makes them so effective.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Religious, Successful, Government

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• It is eminently possible to have a market-based economy that requires no such brutality and demands no such ideological purity. A free market in consumer products can coexist with free public health care, with public schools, with a large segment of the economy -- like a national oil company -- held in state hands. It's equally possible to require corporations to pay decent wages, to respect the right of workers to form unions, and for governments to tax and redistribute wealth so that the sharp inequalities that mark the corporatist state are reduced. Markets need not be fundamentalist.

  Naomi Klein

  School, Hands, Oil

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• The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Keeping Promises, Yesterday, Political

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• We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists, and in so far as it ever did exist, it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy, followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step.

  James Callaghan

  War, Cutting, Thinking

  Labour Party Annual Conference Report, (p. 188), 1976.

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• I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax.

  Dennis Skinner

  Queens, Faithful, Income

  "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)". Debate in the House of Commons (Column 654), publications.parliament.uk. July 23, 1993.

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• Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

  Roy Jenkins

  Inheritance, Heirs, Distrust

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