In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Some are taxed on their success, true. Some are taxed on their survival, also true.
Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.
That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.
Ears do not grow higher than the head.
A chip on the shoulder indicates wood higher up.
The higher you climb, the heavier you fall.
A number of people who I’ve talked to about this assume that I got into a fight with the cops. (Because of, y'know, the militant politics.) I actually had an audience member come up to me once and ask me if I paid taxes. Of course I pay taxes! I pa...
Now, the president would like to do tax reform, which would obviously lower rates for most people in America and make the tax code fair and get rid of loopholes and special treatment. But absent tax reform, the president believes the right way to get...
If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that m...
We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that? Why don't we simplify it? And I've certainly looked at fair tax, I've looked at flat tax, and if I get to the U.S. Senate, I'd ...
Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains...
For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.
I would have done higher than that... I would have set it higher.
The physical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts there is no higher knowledge than the empirical knowledge of scientific phenomena. The mathematical method becomes a philosophy when it asserts that some higher knowledge is needed to explain s...
Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of ...
Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.
I don't blame anybody for using the tax code to their advantage.
We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.
