Taxation
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Commercials, Expenditure, Famous, Feelings, Found, Life, Private, Sedition, Taxation
Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned – never to those wanting to take other people’s money in taxes or to those wishing to live on the largesse dispensed from such taxation. No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Described, Dispensed, Earn, Exclusively, Famous, Government, Greed, Money, Nebulous, Question, Taxation, Wanting, Wishing
It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Check, Famous, Hand, Meaningful, People, Power, Raged, Shoulders, Taxation
Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they are — a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.
Author: Ha-Joon ChangTopics: Cutting, Doe, Economics, Economy, Famous, Simple, Social justice, Tax-cuts, Taxation, Taxes
Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are — a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.
Author: Ha-Joon ChangTopics: Economics, Economy, Famous, Social justice, Tax-cuts, Taxation, Taxes
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Abandoned, Famous, Mean, Politicians, Practice, Source, Taxation, Taxpayers
A tax on salt cod that precipitated the War of Independence
Author: A. A. GillTopics: Acceptance, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Lesson, Letters, Life, Meaningful, Sense of happiness, Sense of identity., Sense of independence, Tax, Taxation, Warning, Wars
By 1927, only the richest 2 percent of Americans paid any federal tax at all.
Author: A. A. GillTopics: America, American Dream, Leadership, Leads, Richest, Tax, Taxation, Times
Inflation is taxation without representation.
Author: Milton FriedmanTopics: Famous, Life, Meaningful, Representation, Taxation
Conservatives say if you don’t give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they’ve lost all incentive because we’ve given them too much money.
Author: George CarlinTopics: Economic arguments, Famous, Incentive, Political arguement, Taxation, Wealth distribution
You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there…just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep ’em showing up at those ‘jobs.’
Author: George CarlinTopics: Class divisions, Famous, Inspirational, sense of dissatisfaction, Society, Socio-economic structure, Taxation, Wealth