Top 1200 Progressive Tax Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

If I'm owed money, but I say, 'Don't pay me, pay my cousin. Don't pay me, pay my charity,' you can do that, but then the IRS requires that you pay income tax on that. It's your income if you earned it and you directed where it went. If you exercised control over where the money went, you have to pay income tax on that.

Progressive policies are harming the Black community.

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

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.

'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.

There are several states that move from Karl Marx-like policies to Adam Smith-like policies and back again in a weekend. So for the states with huge volatility in their income tax policies over time, the differences in growth rates in those periods are really amazingly consistent with tax rates really mattering.

We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.

I'm a progressive who likes to get things done.

Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

The people who are having the hard time right now are middle-income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried. They're just being crushed. Middle-income Americans have seen their income come down by $4,300. This is a tax in and of itself. I'll call it the economy tax. It's been crushing.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.

To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some ways it is worse than a tax. With a tax, the costs are obvious. With a cap-and-trade system, the costs are hidden and shifted around. For that reason, many politicians tend to like it. But that is dangerous.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

It's not only progressives who listen to progressive radio.

Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy.

Stiffening the spine of progressive members of Congress is crucial.

Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.

I think there's always been progressive R&B music.

If you tell people, 'that old banger of yours, we're going to tax the hell out of it,' they'll rightly tell you to get lost. But if you tell people that when they next buy a car, the tax will be adjusted so that the cleanest ones will cost less and the polluting ones will cost more, most people would say 'fair enough.'

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions.

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides of the coin. Applying a tax to land values also means removing other taxes. This would so improve the efficiency of a city that land values would go up more than the increase in taxes on land.

If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

My commitment to the Bible [is my] source of progressive values.

If someone's getting a tax cut, I'm not upset that they're getting a tax cut. I'm really not upset.

Progressive politics in America is an organizational disaster.

I come from generations of progressive, atheist Jews.

There should be complete freedom of thought for a progressive society.

I am a progressive Eurosceptic. I supported Leave.

Can you be a progressive if you're anti-immigrant but pro-choice? No!

We really believe that we can bring about changes in the tax code that will make America more attractive for investment and job creation and business. But the president has also made it very clear that he wants to put - he wants to put new elements in the tax code that are going to have companies pay a price if they decide to take jobs out of the country and then sell their goods back into the United States.

More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit.

When I left law school, I wanted to go into the government, into the tax policy area. I got the job that I wanted in the International Tax Council's office in Treasury. I arrived determined to change the world. But I discovered very quickly that the world couldn't care less. And I couldn't stomach the lying and stealing that I witnessed. I realized that the only difference between my mother's family and the senators and administrators that I was working with was that the latter wore suits and ties.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.

If Scotland is to have the power to fix its income tax rate for the whole country, England needs a body that can fix its income tax rate for the whole country.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.

We also need the provisions in the tax bill that will permit working mothers to increase the deduction from income tax liability for costs incurred in providing care for their children while the mothers are working. In October the Commission on the Status of Women will report to me. This problem should have a high priority, and I think that whatever we leave undone this year we must move on this in January.

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

I'm conservative on some issues. I'm progressive on most.

Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

In Russia, Vladimir Putin is viewed as a progressive Democrat.

I don't even know what progressive is anymore, to be honest!

This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.

We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.

The NBA man, we have always been progressive.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

The worst loophole is what Donald Trump has talked about: the tax deductibility of interest. If you let real estate owners or corporate raiders borrow the money to buy a property or company, and then pay interest to the bondholders, you'll load the company you take over with debt. But you don't have to pay taxes on the profits that you pay out in this way. You can deduct the interest from your tax liability.

Progressive policies lead to a regressive society.

I'll put my progressive credentials up against anyone's.

Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.