Taxes Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• If, at the end of the day, we need to raise taxes, we should raise taxes.

  Paul Volcker

  The End Of The Day, Needs, Ends

  "Obama Economic Adviser Says U.S. Should Consider 'Value-Added Tax'". www.foxnews.com. April 07, 2010.

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• You want to keep more of the money you earn? I'm afraid that's very selfish. We shall want to tax that away. You want to own shares in your firm? We can't have that. The state has to own your firm. You want to choose where to send your children to school? That's very divisive. You'll send your child where we tell you.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Selfish, School

  Margaret Thatcher's speech to Conservative Party conference at Winter Gardens in Blackpool, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 13, 1989.

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• If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid it. It will either demand that past promises are broken, or it will not work, or it will not pay taxes, or the most talented people will leave. Socialist governments which have tried to tax 'till the pips squeak' have ample experience of that.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mean, Past, Socialist Government

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• Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Philosophy, Men, Teach

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.98, BookBaby

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• Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.

  Jesse Helms

  Children, School, Learning

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• I mean, the fact of the matter is, Ohio 's coming back because we set a clear path, we cut taxes , we balanced our budget , we got credit upgrades when the whole rest of the world , including America , was being downgraded.

  John Kasich

  Mean, Cutting, Ohio

  "Durbin, Kasich debate economy, election". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2012.

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• Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

  Melissa Bean

  Giving Up, Rights, Privacy

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• The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

  Jerry Weller

  Tolls, Information, Used

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• If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool.

  Dave Barry

  Talking, Law, People

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• Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.

  Nancy Johnson

  People, Bills, Helping

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• I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.

  Tony Oliva

  Cuba, Bigs, Big Things

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• Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Cutting, People, Giving

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• I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Government, Complaining

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• Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Luxury, People, Telephones

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• When one becomes a liberal, he or she pretends to advocate tolerance, equality and peace, but hilariously, they’re doing so for purely selfish reasons. It’s the human equivalent of a puppy dog’s face: an evolutionary tool designed to enhance survival, reproductive value and status. In short, liberalism is based on one central desire: to look cool in front of others in order to get love. Preaching tolerance makes you look cooler, than saying something like, 'please lower my taxes.'

  Greg Gutfeld

  Dog, Selfish, Order

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• Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

  Curt Schilling

  Believe, Government, Dollars

  "MLB great Curt Schilling thriving in second career". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2012.

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• The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

  Arnaud Montebourg

  Government, Austerity, Economic

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• According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

  Bob Riley

  Christian, Income, Care

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• We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether it’s worth it - and why electoral democracy hasn’t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?

  Noah Feldman

  Blow, Rights, Self

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