Quotes About Property Tax

#1. Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax. - Author: Robert H. Jackson

#2. An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation. - Author: John Marshall

#3. If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax. - Author: Robert Green Ingersoll

#4. My attitude toward friendship has remained the same. I will support and encourage you with all the love in my heart, but if it's not reciprocal, I gotta go [ ... ] If your friends are bitter about your success to the extent that they act out, don't expect them to change [ ... ] Move on. - Author: RuPaul

#5. This is Robin Hood in reverse. These tax cap proposals favor those with the most expensive properties. We are spreading the taxes to those with some of the least expensive property. - Author: Clementa C. Pinckney

#6. Faith should mean something. Gods . . . should stand for something, not chop and change with every breeze that blows. Gods should be worshipped for the truths they represent, not what party favours they might dispense.-Razor Eddie the Punk God of the Straight Razor - Author: Simon R. Green

#7. CHAPTER XIII SOME NEW ACQUAINTANCES ARE INTRODUCED TO THE INTELLIGENT READER; CONNECTED WITH WHOM, VARIOUS PLEASANT MATTERS ARE RELATED, APPERTAINING TO THIS HISTORY - Author: Charles Dickens

#8. I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by tax avoidance, and who want to asset-strip the intellectual property of the British company and then dismember it. - Author: David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury Of Turville

#9. We favor the economic unification of Germany. If complete unification cannot be secured, we shall do everything in our power to secure the maximum possible unification. - Author: James F. Byrnes

#10. It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal. - Author: M. Stanton Evans

#11. It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life claim to be non-doms and live here, it is not fair that non-doms with residential property here in the UK can put it in an offshore company and avoid inheritance tax. - Author: George Osborne

#12. While a reverse mortgage can indeed be a viable way to generate income, it is very important to understand that after you take out a reverse mortgage, you will still be responsible for paying the property tax, the insurance premium, and all the maintenance costs for your home. - Author: Suze Orman

#13. The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world. - Author: Thomas Piketty

#14. Only now are increasing numbers of political and social scientists beginning to realize that Kelso's theories provide a private-property-based alternative to the imminent passage of a government-distributed "guaranteed income" or "negative income tax." - Author: Hazel Henderson

#15. I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats. - Author: Nick Clegg

#16. God is not a person. God does not have a history. God does not have a future. God is beyond definition. We can say that your perception of this world is God. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#17. In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime. - Author: Doc Hastings

#18. We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy? - Author: Robert Reich

#19. I'm an average, everyday girl. - Author: Chloe Grace Moretz

#20. No one can replace you to do what you are destined to do until you totally fail it and leave an empty gap that God will fill. - Author: Israelmore Ayivor

#21. If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects. - Author: Henry David Thoreau

#22. Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he is a subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master. - Author: Adam Smith

#23. It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears. - Author: Mark Zandi

#24. What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property. - Author: Thomas Piketty

#25. We've excused all houses up to $750,000 from our property-purchase tax. We have more to do. There are other measures we intend to take to try and address housing affordability. There are things we can do. There are limits to it and we can't do it by ourselves. - Author: Christy Clark

#26. One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue. - Author: Jim Ryun

#27. It was about time their nose for trouble had a woman's touch. - Author: Luke Taylor

#28. Investor demand for distressed property has been healthy, as rents rise to levels that can cover investors' costs while they wait for properties to appreciate. Giving investors a small tax break should further juice up demand, supporting prices for distressed homes and the market in general. - Author: Mark Zandi

#29. Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase. - Author: Luis Gutierrez

#30. A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill. - Author: Hans F. Sennholz

#31. Run in places you love with people you like. Enjoying your surroundings and training partners will strengthen your commitment to running and bring out the best in you. - Author: Deena Kastor

#32. Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. - Author: Samuel Johnson