Top 1200 Progressive Tax Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.

Obamacare notwithstanding, the current president's progressive instincts have been neutered by the rise of the Tea Party and Luddite conservatism.

Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

There's no actual title. Except sometimes 'wife of the prime minister,' which, you know, we could be a little more progressive.

The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.

We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities.

Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.

Our long-term objective is clear: to replace the Labour Party as the progressive wing of politics in this country.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.

What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly.

Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.

Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax cut, it will be a national welfare program, guaranteeing a majority of American households an annual check to 'refund' taxes they never paid. And it will eliminate the need for about 20% of American households to pay income taxes, lifting the proportion that need not do so to a majority of the voting population.

The Democrats are going to tax everybody through the roof. It is going to be focused on people that are wealthy because that's who they can tax. When you look at the stimulus plan - see, this doesn't make any sense, this is not working, it's not going to work, it's not intended to work the way we all were told it was gonna work. Health care is not going to get better. It's gonna get worse. It's gonna get rationed. The economy, the energy sector, nothing is being improved here. Everything's being wrecked.

Progressive bloggers should not only write on behalf of the members of America's underclass but also empower them to join the discussion.

Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

I'm progressive in some ways, old-fashioned in others. I like it when guys hold the door open and are sweet and thoughtful.

I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world.

I would absolutely classify as being incredibly progressive the fact that I am the third female prime minister.

Matuidi is a midfielder of international importance that has everything and gives it all. He is physically strong, intelligent, always progressive with the ball.

I think we speak to a certain mindset, and it's about, you know, inspiring people who are progressive thinkers who want to see change.

Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately he's called me a socialist for wanting to roll-back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class. I don't know what's next. By the end of the week he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

You, as a wage earner have to pay your taxes every year on your income for that year. So if you have a one-time windfall that makes you a lot money you could end up in the top tax bracket. But if you're a corporation you are allowed to reach forward with deferrals for years. Over a 45 to 50 year period, you can balance out the winning years and the losing years in such a way that you pay very little tax, especially considering the time-value of the money.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

There's a separation of church and state. If you want the perks that churches have traditionally received, then abide by the rules. If you're going to be involved in the political process, even in soft ways, then surrender the privileges. Let ministers pay income tax on all of their income. Let churches pay income tax, let them pay property taxes. They can't have it both ways. You can't pat the politicians on the back, break the rules, and then get all these perks.

Even some of my Republican friends say I have a populist, progressive streak. I am not a doctrinaire, anti-government person.

Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers.

The way that you address this right-wing extremism is actually by putting forward a truly progressive agenda. That's the only solution here.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

The progressive integration of new technologies in our economy amounts to a paradigm shift with a profound impact on the context and content of work.

In a vast and diverse country like India, a political party with secular ideology can ensure stable and progressive government.

I know we play a part in the story of progressive music, but for us those influences are the real fathers, the ones that we were interested in.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

My definition of success is: 1.) The progressive realization of worthy goals 2.) The ability to love and have compassion 3.) To be in touch with the creative source within.

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

The alt-right for me is primarily a cultural reaction to the nannying and language policing and authoritarianism of the progressive left - the stranglehold that it has on culture.

It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry.

The SNP are far from radical, but they do have a knack for producing the odd simple, progressive policy that's hard to argue against.

I think the word 'progressive' is a very devious term. It was created as a substitute for 'communist.' What they propose is the reverse of progress.

My fifth record is, in many ways, inspired by the hugely ambitious progressive pop records that I loved in my youth.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

The best thing we can do for family values is to repeal the income tax. Then families will have the resources they need to implement their own values - and not those of the politicians. With the income tax gone, families will no longer be forced to have two breadwinners by necessity. Children will be raised better, family values will predominate, and crime will diminish. If your local school indoctrinates your child with values that are alien to you, you'll have the money to buy a private education.

My music, I think, takes elements from a lot of different genres, progressive, electro but is still quite clearly defined as my sound.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness.

It is imperative that Democrats take a stand and embrace Medicare for All and other progressive policies that address the needs of millions of Americans.

The best progressive policies are constructed by learning from past experiences while striving toward a more equitable future.

My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

Progressive Conservative candidates from Quebec want to exert real power in Ottawa, not simply be content with playing a secondary role.

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children.

Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class.

The reality is the most important thing that can be done are these permanent changes like to the tax code, reduction of government spending. These are the things that pop up in economy and move it in the right direction, start to make it an economy that is moving because of the money in the private economy. When you think about it, when the Fed is lowering an interest rate, what it's doing is it's creating more liquidity. It's putting more money into the economy. The same thing happens when you reduce the tax except if happens from physical policy.

No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.