Quotes About Estate Taxes

#1. The estate taxes, on balance, are good. They get people to give money to charity, and they prevent these family dynasties which keep other people from having opportunities. It may be good for a family, but for society it's probably not good. And I've always been in favor of having an estate tax.

Michael Bloomberg

#2. I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all.

Ari Fleischer

#3. Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there's an owner who isn't, he has his head in the sand.

Dan Rooney

#4. That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

Ilka Chase

#5. You accumulate a great deal of acquaintances and friendships over the years, and you can't always spend as much time as you would like.

Jamie Farr

#6. Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#7. I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.

Bo Burnham

#8. Go early to bed. Start maybe working out a little sooner. Stay patient. Stop smoking.

Nicolas Colsaerts

#9. The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.

Aisha Tyler

#10. He had asked me earlier in the summer to marry him, then he promptly forgot about it. He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me.

Harper Lee

#11. Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

Edmund Hillary

#12. I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

Seneca The Younger

#13. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

Calvin Coolidge

#14. The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.

Kenneth H. Cooper

#15. The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Lao-Tzu

#16. You can never really own real estate for instance; if you think you can, just try not paying your property taxes for a few years.

Michael Maloney

#17. In real estate, many investors love triple net leases. With NNN's investors receive income without the expenses of taxes, repairs and insurance. The tenant covers these costs.

Robert Kiyosaki

#18. Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for capital gains taxes and disregard for contracts.

Amity Shlaes

#19. an appointment with a local property tycoon who got into trouble with some Armenian gang members because he didn't want to pay them

L.J. Shen