Quotes About Taxing The Rich

#1. When you talk about taxing the rich, you're taxing capital, and taxing capital results in damage to more than just the wealthy.

Rush Limbaugh

#2. If you like Obama, if you like a Washington that offers free stuff and taxing the rich, that's what you get. I don't see him evolving as a president.

Nina Easton

#3. In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.

Jill Lepore

#4. I'm done with all the stupid shit. I'm done with politicians, the rich taxing the poor. I'm done with organised religions, profiting off their prophets. I'm done with pop culture, making everything consumable. I'm done, I'm done, I'm done

Timothy Decker

#5. that 'the rich should be trusted to tithe, or should we have a society with a basic taxing-and-spending structure that ensures a modicum of economic security for all people?

Linsey McGoey

#6. Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley

#7. No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

John Ruskin

#8. Gratitude is the most passionate transformative force in the cosmos. When we offer thanks to God or to another human being, gratitude gifts us with renewal, reflection, reconnection.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#9. The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

Adam Davidson

#10. And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She.

John Donne

#11. No, I'm not rich. I had a tax problem in this country, curiously enough, and my accountant said the British government was patently wrong in taxing me, and they were, but we couldn't persuade them and it cost me everything I had.

Donald Sutherland

#12. The only boring people I know are bored people.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#13. Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.

John Stuart Mill

#14. Instead of taxing rich people, governments borrow from them, and pay them interest for the privilege.

Doug Henwood

#15. Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#16. We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology.

Gregory Bateson

#17. odd, he thought, how the thought of childhood keeps coming back to me. The result of seeing Clarissa, perhaps; for women live much more in the past than we do, he thought.

Virginia Woolf