Top 1200 Progressive Tax Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

After 25 quarters of so-called recovery under Obama, it has increased a total of only 14.3 percent. Compare this to earlier periods. After the JFK tax cuts of the early 1960s, the economy grew in total by roughly 40 percent. After the Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s, the economy grew by a total of 34 percent.

Let's work together to keep our country open, tolerant, respectful, and progressive.

I was always impressed by some of the progressive styles of guys like Neil Peart.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

At a young age, I was introduced to Joni Mitchell by my mum. My dad was into progressive rock.

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.

I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist

I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life. Now, that's crazy. And if you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or whomever around their office. On average. And so I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax. I think the rest of the country should be paying less.

Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment.

If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.

My name is Kevin de Leon, and I am the president of the most progressive legislative house in America.

Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances.

My style is to be collaborative, progressive, to look at things that seem a little bit impossible.

We're going to bring a lot of money in on trade. We're going to bring a lot of money on reciprocal. You know, as an example, when you have countries with a big tax and we get nothing for the same product and we're paying - our companies are paying 100 percent tax in some countries and if they send their product to us we pay nothing. Doesn't make sense.

[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of course, bear exclusively the burden of supporting the government; and the other, of those who are the recipients of their proceeds through disbursements,and who are, in fact, supported by the government; or, in fewer words, to divide it into tax-payers and tax-consumers. But the effect of this is to place them in antagonistic relations in reference to the fiscal action of the government and the entire course of policy therewith connected.

They spent the night in jail, where their progressive views on gay marriage served them well.

You can be both progressive and want to get things done - they're not mutually exclusive and that's what I bring.

From 2008 to 2016 all the growth in the American economy, all the growth in national income, was earned just by the wealthiest 5% of the population. So they got all the growth. 95% of the population didn't grow. If you can get a flat tax or other lower tax, as Trump is suggesting, then this richest 5% will be able to keep even more money. That means that the 95% will be even poorer than they were before, relative to the very top.

It's quite difficult to get through to the people who are really committed to these anti-progressive beliefs.

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

She's going to do what her donors want. That's who Nancy Pelosi is. Not remotely progressive.

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity.

Remember back in the nineties, a bunch of Democrats decided to tax luxury items, including yachts? They figured it was not fair that some people could afford yachts, and so since they could, they said, "We're gonna tax the hell out of yachts at the point of sale, 'cause it's not fair. We need to collect revenue from all this!" What happened was that the people who actually build the yachts lost their jobs because people stopped buying them.

How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.

Progressive art can assist people to learn what's at work in the society in which they live.

The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.

I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican that I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive.

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

Arthur Laffer's idea, that lowering taxes could increase revenues, was logically correct. If tax rates are high enough, then people will go to such lengths to avoid them that cutting taxes can increase revenues. What he was wrong about was in thinking that income tax rates were already so high in the 1970s that cutting them would raise revenues.

The way to end corruption is a progressive, policy driven state with proper implementation.

My high school in Seattle, Lakeside, seemed conservative on the surface, but it was educationally progressive.

Just because something is melodic or catchy doesn't mean that it doesn't have depth and substance and progressive sensibilities.

You compare the nation to a parched piece of land and the tax to a life-giving rain. So be it. But you should also ask yourself where this rain comes from, and whether it is not precisely the tax that draws the moisture from the soil and dries it up. You should also ask yourself further whether the soil receives more of this precious water from the rain than it loses by the evaporation?

The Government in their own terms, for example, they banked the income for the backpackers' tax. But they had a process attached to the backpackers' tax of review that they wanted to go through. What the Government's saying now with this bill is any process, any detail, any reinvestment that Labor had as part of its package, we're meant to ignore all of that and it's only the cut part of it that we're meant to be committed to.

I'm a progressive person, very liberal. I have this thing in my head where I'm going to change the world, but with comedy.

5: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1944: The G.I. Bill will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1965: Medicare will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1994: Health care will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!

My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.

If you're a progressive, if you're driving a Prius, or you're shopping green or you're looking for organic, you should probably be a semi-vegetarian.

Democrats want to force their ideas on states that refuse to adopt their progressive, failed policies.

I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Continuing to push narratives that are progressive and that are coming from a place of love and acceptance is so important.

You can't do progressive government from the inside. You have to rally those outsiders and make them a force.

We need a common European tax policy that closes these tax loopholes. We need a common European social policy that prevents social dumping. We need an effective securing of our external borders and a smart way of fighting terrorism. Acting as a state within a national framework is no longer enough. The German chancellor has completely failed to convey that throughout her years in power. We need a re-start for Europe.

I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era.

Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat

The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

I'd like to help struggling homeowners who can't pay their mortgages, I'd like to invest in our crumbling infrastructure, I'd like to reform the tax system so multimillionaires can't pretend their earnings are capital gains and pay at the rate of 15 percent. I'd like to make public higher education free, and pay for it with a small transfer tax on all financial transactions. I'd like to do much more - a new new deal for Americans. But Republicans are blocking me at every point.

The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and 20s.

For the sake of The Progressive, I will say that [Robert] La Follette was relevant, but he was the last.

Toronto is such a progressive city. When you've travelled to other places in the world, you realize how unprogressive they are.

I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. I feel like he did that intentionally for us, like McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning because he's pale and he would probably wanna be tanned.

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

When I married Maria, her father was governor at the time, and I was in awe of his progressive message.