Top 1200 Progressive Tax Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

Do not underestimate me. I believe that as a woman, a progressive, and a Minnesotan, I have a lot to contribute and I am so ready to do that work.

...in terms of business mistakes that I've seen over a long lifetime, I would say that trying to minimize taxes too much is one of the great standard causes of really dumb mistakes. I see terrible mistakes from people being overly motivated by tax considerations. Warren and I personally don't drill oil wells. We pay our taxes. And we've done pretty well, so far. Anytime somebody offers you a tax shelter from here on in life, my advice would be don't buy it.

Scripts specify 'minority' when it doesn't seem necessary. Given this is a traditionally liberal and progressive industry, it's surprisingly backwards.

Every progressive movement has been built on the anger, needs, and aspirations of the emerging major class.

The NBA is the single most progressive, inclusive, open-minded sports league in the country.

True success is the progressive expansion of happiness. It is the ability to express spontaneous joy and share it with others.

Donald Trump is a businessman, not a career politician. He actually built a business. Those tax returns that were - that came out publicly this week show that he faced some pretty tough times 20 years ago. But like virtually every other business, including the New York Times not too long ago, he used what's called net operating loss. We have a tax code that actually is designed to encourage entrepreneurship in this country.

Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.

As long as you're having fun and being positive and progressive, I'm going to say you're living a Zumbao lifestyle.

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

Let me have my tax money go for my protection and not for my prosecution. Let my tax money go for the protection of me. Protect my home, protect my streets, protect my car, protect my life, protect my property...worry about becoming a human being and not about how you can prevent others from enjoying their lives because of your own inability to adjust to life.

Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas.

I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

I hope people understand that when you tax corporations that the concrete and the steel and the plastic don't pay. People pay. And so when you tax corporations, either the employees are going to pay or the shareholders are going to pay or the customers are going to pay. And so corporations are people.

Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

President Trump repeatedly says that "America is the highest-taxed country in the world." This is an alternative fact. We pay less in taxes, and our government spends less, as a share of our total wealth, than our counterparts in Western Europe and East Asia. But Trump is right when it comes to corporate tax rates; the U.S. corporate income tax right is among the highest in the world.

Once I have a book in my head, I write progressive drafts fast and obsessively and have trouble sleeping.

Our true choice is not between tax reduction on the one hand and the avoidance of large federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.

The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.

There really needs to be more of progressive shows and strong characters that women should aspire to be like.

The U.A.E. has a progressive vision for transforming its economy, and Hyperloop One plays right into that by increasing access to the region and beyond.

The stereotype of aging as a progressive loss of function is generally true only for people who stop functioning.

Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.

Nothing should be banned. Anything that is progressive and contributes something to society shouldn't come in the way of politics.

That's kind of the nature of being in a progressive band - always trying new things, moving forward.

For whatever reason, the mainstream media, for the most part, affixes itself to progressive or liberal propaganda.

We have proven that you can actually move strong, progressive policies, grow the economy, and improve the human condition.

Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.

[To] the progressive mind, the very concept of "the enemy" is obsolescent: there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

What really gets me is this - it's very ironic that those who are most critical of extra tax are those who are most vociferous in demanding extra expenditure. What gets me even more is that having demanded that extra expenditure they are not prepared to face the consequences of their own action and stand by the necessity to get the tax to pay for it. I wish some of them had a bit more guts and courage than they have.

As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values.

Progressive metal is one of the hardest styles of music to pull off live, especially while providing a tasteful show.

Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.

It's a shame that gays who ought to be pushing boundaries have been domesticated and tamed and turned into pets by the Progressive Left.

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

Every progressive movement in U.S. history has been portrayed negatively by the media at the time it happened.

Index funds are... tax friendly, allowing investors to defer the realization of capital gains or avoid them completely if the shares are later bequeathed. To the extent that the long-run uptrend in stock prices continues, switching from security to security involves realizing capital gains that are subject to tax. Taxes are a crucially important financial consideration because the earlier realization of capital gains will substantially reduce net returns.

With its brutal empire and legalised slavery, the Roman Republic was hardly a towering beacon of progressive values.

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that the Branch Davidians possessed machine guns without paying the required federal tax and filling in the proper registration forms. So a tax case worth less than $10,000 led to a 76-man helicopter, machine gun, and grenade assault on a home in which 2/3 of the occupants were women and children.

You know, people like Hillary Clinton think you grow the economy by growing Washington. I think most of us in America understand that people, not the government creates jobs. And one of the best things we can do is get the government out of the way, put in reign in all the out of control regulations, put in place and all of the above energy policy, give people the education, the skills that the need to succeed, and lower the tax rate and reform the tax code.

As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

Lopez Obrador invokes the appeal of national unity, the revolution of 1910, and the progressive constitution of 1917.

The Green Party has the most progressive platform and policies related to issues of social and racial justice.

I love to tell how I'm suffering because one percent we're paying 25 percent of the total. We're not paying 25 percent of the total taxes on individuals. We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends. They take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

If you're a wealthy heir with a trust fund, and you sell stocks, make your 10% gains since Donald Trump, and then you buy other stocks, you can avoid paying taxes. And if your accountant registers your wealth offshore in a Panamanian fund, like Russian kleptocrats do - and as more and more Americans do - you don't have to pay any tax at all, because it's not American income, it's foreign income in an enclave without an income tax.

The increasingly progressive messages in marketing campaigns are clearly a mercenary attempt to entice millennials: they are trying to be 'woke.'

The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.

The total dividend income declared in 1995 by the bottom 9.7 million Canadian tax-filers (47% of all those submitting tax returns) was $310 million. The estimated dividend income received by the Thomson family in 1995 from its 72% ownership share of the Thomson Corporation and its 22% ownership share of the Hudson's Bay Company was $310 million.