#taxes

I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes. ↗

— John Boehner

#call #cap #coming #costs #debt

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows? ↗

— Nigel Farage

#beginning #cutting #europe #flat #foreign

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right. ↗

— Vince Cable

#bank #bosses #british #daily #dodge

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#absolutely #collecting #legalized #more #necessary

A rather vicious cycle has been at work for years. Reduced taxes on the rich leave them with more money to influence politicians and politics. Their influence wins them further tax reductions, which gives them still more money to put to political use. When the loss of tax revenue from the rich worsens already strained government budgets, the rich press politicians to cut public services and government jobs and not even debate a return to the higher taxes the rich used to pay. So it goes – from Washington, to Wisconsin, to New York City. ↗

— Richard Wolff How the rich soaked the rest of us Guardian March

#equality #inequality #inequity #politics #rich

wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?' As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#humor #sports #taxes #humor

Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#gratitude #money #taxes #wealth #money

A penny saved is worth two pennies earned . . . after taxes. ↗

— Randy Thurman

#money #savings #taxes #money

Pah…commoners, traders." Ergus made a disparaging gesture. Traders with money, Ergus. Money they put at the disposition of young Tanahkos," Lmachdan said in a dry tone. "Money that turns into soldiers. Soldiers who are used to extort tribute from us. Tribute that is turned into more soldiers. The warlord has a good thing going, I'll say that for him. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#greed #nobles #paying-taxes #power #rich-men

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down. ↗

— Charles Adams

#bring #catastrophe #create #down #expediency