Quotes of: Estate-tax Keyword

the larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt...

Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.

Jay Kay

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Arthur C. Clarke

I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.

Tom Cole

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

Thomas Piketty

Raising taxes won't create private sector jobs.

Marco Rubio

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

Mark Skousen

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.

Bruce Dickinson

There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that.

Joe Lhota

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

Fred Allen

Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.

Donald Trump

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

Bill Gates

Huguette Clark has had her own tax liens - four times, the IRS has filed to collect taxes from her.

Bill Dedman

There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.

Phil Gramm

We worked like dogs, we ate like hogs, and we slept like logs.

Fix 'em Up, Rent 'em Out: How to Start Your Own House Fix-up & Rental Business in Your Spare Time; or, Investing in Real Estate and Creating Wealth with Fixer-Upper Houses

By the mid-1950s real estate promoters of the commercial strip were attaching it to the centerless residential suburb. Both strips and tracts expanded under the impact of federal subsidies to developers, but since these subsidies were indirect, it wa...

Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000

Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,” dropping the keys in Ennis’s hand. He might have to ...

Brokeback Mountain

Up until two years ago, I was one of the top-selling real estate agents in the tricounty area. I went to a convention in Boca Raton. I had one too many margaritas, met a tall, pale, and handsome man in the bar, and woke up a vampire." "I was mistaken...

Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

My shoes were all muddy, so before I walked in my friend's house I sprinkled grass clippings all over my feet and said, “Excuse the mess—I just stepped in real estate.” While the value of my words wasn’t like 2007 prices, it was still worth e...

This Book Title is Invisible

Sorry, Bex," Jason said "You don't have the recognizable facial characteristics - such as a huge chin, or a large amount of real estate between the eyes - that would merit the bestowing of a criminal mastermind nickname such as Lockjaw or Walleye. Wh...

Meg Cabot

Arthur: What? August Rush: I don't have a place to stay Arthur: Do I look like a real estate tycoon to you? [August shrugs] Arthur: How many dead presidents you got? [August looks at him blankly] Arthur: Nuggets? Shorts? Show me the money! [August ta...

August Rush