Top 1200 Progressive Tax Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

I have a political view that is certainly progressive and radical in a certain sense.

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.

Not taking corporate money is a core part of the progressive message.

I guess you could call my music progressive, pop, rock.

Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster than your parents. People came to you for help with such things. So you took accounting and eventually became a tax auditor for the IRS. What an embarrassing job, right? You feel you should be writing poetry or doing aviation mechanics or whatever. But then you realize that tax collecting can be a calling too.

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

The road to success is always under construction. It is a progressive course, not an end to be reached.

MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

I tell people in Washington that I'm not the most progressive person in my district and they are shocked.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.

Ambition alone cannot define a progressive female character.

Music is progressive, you get out, you experiment with new people and you grow.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

Success is the progressive, timely achievement of your stated goals.

Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived in recent years, but has been studiously ignored by all our purveyors of conventional economic wisdom. That is because we have been persuaded, against logic, and moral sense, that the institution that most needs our support these days is not society, nor the human community, but the global corporation.

I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him.

The NBA is way more progressive than the NFL or MLB.

Anyone who thinks they're a progressive should be interested in making progress.

I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.

The other states look to New York for the progressive direction.

When a company wants to move to Mexico or another company - or another country and they want to build a nice, beautiful factory and they want to sell their product through our border, no tax, and the people that all got fired, so we end up with unemployment and debt, and they end up with jobs and factories and all of the other things, not going to happen that way. And the way you stop it is by imposing a tax.

It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life.

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect.

We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.

It's one of the most progressive cities in the world. Shooting is only a sideline.

The progressive and liberal mindset believes that to every problem there is a Washington, D.C., solution.

In those countries where income taxes are lower than in the United States, the ability to defer the payment of U.S. tax by retaining income in the subsidiary companies provides a tax advantage for companies operating through overseas subsidiaries that is not available to companies operating solely in the United States. Many American investors properly made use of this deferral in the conduct of their foreign investment.

Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses, and for misrepresenting the cost of the venture, there is no excuse for how he chose to finance it. His was the first war in history paid for entirely on credit. As America went into battle, with deficits already soaring from his 2001 tax cut, Bush decided to plunge ahead with yet another round of tax "relief" for the wealthy.

It was an easy thing to tax for a young country. And then gradually we moved to property taxes, manufacturing taxes, and the income tax was the answer to a populist demand: Let's go after the rich guys. We got into World War I, and they raised the rates and started taxing the rich. Then we got into World War II, and that's when they taxed everybody, because they just needed more revenue.

I consider myself a progressive Republican. I am liberal on social issues.

There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.

And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.

'Baby' has given us the confidence to continue backing progressive content.

We are here to change. We are here to grow, develop and unfold. We are progressive beings that have infinite capacity

I think what grows the economy is when you get that tax credit that we put in place for your kids going to college. I think that grows the economy. I think what grows the economy is when we make sure small businesses are getting a tax credit for hiring veterans who fought for our country. That grows our economy.

I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning. Because he's pale and would probably want to be tan.

I think a progressive is someone who cares to expand freedom for everybody.

There's never been a time when we've taken progressive action and regretted it.

The Nazis learned their propaganda from the progressive movement in the United States.

Now all of the ideas that I'm talking about, they are not radical ideas. Making public colleges and universities tuition free, that exists in countries all over the world, used to exist in the United States. Rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, and creating 13 million jobs by doing away with tax loopholes that large corporations now enjoy by putting their money into the Cayman Islands and other tax havens. That is not a radical idea.

Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.

I had quit the Congress to form the Progressive Democratic Front in 1978.

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

I am not a liberal who is so afraid of the word that I had to change my name to progressive.

Our government has been pro-poor, progressive, and people-oriented.

If we can’t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that’s been built up around the Reagan revolution, where somehow people genuinely think that he slashed government and slashed the deficit and that the recovery was because of all these massive tax cuts, as opposed to a shift in interest-rate policy - if we can’t describe that effectively, then we’re doomed to keep on making more and more mistakes.

I kid the Republicans, with love. I feel bad for them. They got nobody for next time. Who are they gonna run? Sarah Palin, reading off her hand. Did you see that? You saw this? She wrote "tax cuts" on her hand. A Republican so stupid she has to be reminded of the one thing - Tax cuts! This is like if you saw the coyote's paw and it said "Road Runner".

Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.

Ill put my progressive credentials up against anyones.

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

The only way I can get progressive things done is working with Republicans.