Tax System Quotes - Page 2

• We need a tax system that essentially takes very good care of the people who just really aren't as well adapted to the market system but are nevertheless doing useful things in the society.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Needs, Care

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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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• You also want to look at how the tax system encourages and rewards pension saving. I have set as an ambition reversing the effects of Gordon Brown's tax raid which heralded the beginning of the age of responsibility. We are looking at some very specific tax measures on how we can encourage saving.

  George Osborne

  Responsibility, Ambition, Age

  Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

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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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• 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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• 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 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 purpose for a tax system is to collect needed revenue at the least cost to the people.

  Edward C. Prescott

  People, Purpose, Cost

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• I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.

  Rick Perry

  Mean, Simple, Thinking

  "SQUAWK BOX" with John Harwood, www.cnbc.com. October 25, 2011.

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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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• gun registration is no more complex than the Income Tax system.

  Joe Jordan

  Gun, Income, Registration

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• In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

  Learned Hand

  Two, America, Taxation

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• I find it remarkable that virtually all of the large difference in labor supply between France and the United States is due to differences in tax systems. I expected institutional constraints on the operation of labor markets and the nature of the unemployment benefit system to be more important. I was surprised that the welfare gain from reducing the intratemporal tax wedge is so large.

  Edward C. Prescott

  Differences, Important, Gains

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• People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.

  Richard Neal

  Believe, People, Achievement

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• If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.

  Bob Taft

  Jobs, Yesterday, Frozen

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• We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into an expenditure tax with a single flat rate. ... We have to substantially reduce the size and scope of the federal government, fundamentally increase the role of the states in choosing their own practices, and bring decision-making closer to the people, not to unelected administrators. These steps are crucial to getting our nation on a path of fiscal, political and constitutional responsibility.

  Edwin Feulner

  Responsibility, Government, Practice

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• Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

  George Osborne

  Simple, Needs, Rich

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• We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Men, Benefits, Pay

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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• Taxing Women is a must-have primer for any woman who wants to understand how our current tax system affects her family's economic condition. In plain English, McCaffery explains how the tax code stacks the deck against women and why it's in women's economic interest to lead the next great tax rebellion.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Want, Next, Rebellion

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