Tax System Quotes

• The United States has a system of taxation by confession

  Hugo Black

  America, United States, Irs

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• The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

  Edward Kennedy

  Average, Taxpayers, Taxes

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• No one could argue with a straight face that the couples getting married today are much happier just because their wedding celebrations cost three times as much as those in 1980. Bigger mansions and costlier parties are wasteful in the same sense that larger antlers on all bull elk are wasteful. The good news is that simple changes in the tax system can eliminate much of this waste without having to deny people the right to decide for themselves how best to spend their money.

  Robert H. Frank

  Couple, Party, Simple

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Bridges, Broken

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• Are we ever going to have a federal tax system that regular people can understand?

  Dave Barry

  People, Taxes, Federal Taxes

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.89, Ballantine Books

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• We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

  Manmohan Singh

  Government, People, Entrepreneur

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• Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Self, Height, Certain

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• Having taxed the economy so hard, it has created a big depression. So we have to create a tax system that could really help growth and investment that is the first thing.

  Eva Kaili

  Growth, Firsts, Helping

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• There's such a wide variation in tax systems around the world, it's difficult to imagine a harmonized CO2 tax that every country agrees to. That's not in the cards in the near term. But the countries that are doing the best job, like Sweden, are already doing both of these. I think that eventually we'll use both of them but we need to get started right away and the cap-and-trade is a proven and effective tool.

  Al Gore

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Why I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.

  Benjamin Carson

  Pay, Way, Taxes

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Basically the tax reform ideas are to clean up the tax system and to eliminate the loopholes that only very few make use of, to eliminate the possibility of people making millions of dollars every year and not paying any tax at all through oil depletion allowances and things like that.

  Warren Beatty

  Years, Ideas, Oil

  Interview with R. Couri Hay, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2015.

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• In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process of subsidies, supports, and deficit spending and an increasingly inequitable tax system.

  Michael Parenti

  Opportunity, Government, Political

  "Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, February 15, 2007.

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• As a citizen, you have an obligation to the countrys tax system, but you also have an obligation to yourself to know your rights under the law and possible tax deductions -- and to claim every one of them.

  Donald Alexander

  Rights, Law, Citizens

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• And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.

  George McGovern

  Hard Work, Land, Lines

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• Who can dispute that the governments of the United States constitute the most voracious tax system in the history of mankind? In the year 2000, those governments succeeded in laying hands on more than $3 trillion - almost $11,000 each for the 275 million men, women, and children resident in the country. No other nation-state rakes in an amount even close to the U.S. total.

  Robert Higgs

  Country, Children, Men

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• Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... The present tax load ... distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoidtaxliabilities.

  John F. Kennedy

  Effort, Risk, Growth

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• Grow jobs. Get this economy growing. Raise wages. Simplify the tax system, so it's easy to comply with.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Wages, Growing

  "Speaker Ryan's "strange bedfellows" partnership with Trump". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. December 4, 2016.

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• We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed.

  Barack Obama

  Special, Taxes, Interest

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I very much believe in reforming the tax system.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Taxes

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not.

  Jamie Dimon

  Growth, Want, Taxes

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Needs, Rewards, Financial

  Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Any man of energy and initiative can get what he wants out of life. But when initiative is crippled by legislation or by a tax system which denies him the right to receive a reasonable share of his earnings, then he will no longer exert himself and the country will be deprived of the energy on which its continued greatness depends.

  Andrew Mellon

  Country, Greatness, Men

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• The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrence to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system, and this administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963.

  John F. Kennedy

  Summer, Mean, Cutting

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• One of the high spots of the decade for me was offering the bill which culminated in the tax act of 1986, which brought rates down. That was the most difficult problem to solve: how to make the tax system of the United States more fair. We tried to make it simpler, but we failed on that one.

  Donald T. Regan

  Offering, United States, Bills

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• We need real tax reform which makes the rich and profitable corporations begin to pay their fair share of taxes. We need a tax system which is fair and progressive. Children should not go hungry in this country while profitable corporations and the wealthy avoid their tax responsibilities by stashing their money in the Cayman Islands.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Children, Real

  "Senator Bernie Sanders Launches His Political Revolution for the Presidency of the United States" by Pearl Korn, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2015.

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