“My capital gains of approximately $40,000 were placed into a 1031 tax-deferred exchange,” — Robert T. Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
If no estate tax is imposed, capital gains taxes can be avoided indefinitely. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The tax on capital gains in Canada is twice as high as in communist China and we wonder why our ideas are… — Pierre Poilievre Copy Share Image
I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“If the stock market continues to advance, we know that inequality will increase, for capital gains on equities accrue disproportionately to the… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes. — Burton Malkiel Copy Share Image
The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan,… — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
This is, and they're going to talk,you think these guys are going to go out there and cut those loopholes? The loophole...the… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
An unrealized capital gains tax will empower the federal government to access the private transactions of Americans, needlessly expand bureaucracy in Washington,… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
“A 2008 study of the wealthiest four hundred taxpayers, for instance, showed that they earned an average of $202 million and paid… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
What the issue here is, you get rid of all the conservative orthodoxy about capital gains, marginal tax rate, supply side economics,… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
We must end the iniquitous multi-taxing of the same money. It is not right to tax people's incomes, then their savings on… — Liam Fox Copy Share Image
“Those cuts had lowered the top income tax rate from 39.6 percent to 35 percent. With bipartisan support, Bush had also slashed… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
I'd like to help struggling homeowners who can't pay their mortgages, I'd like to invest in our crumbling infrastructure, I'd like to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My tax plan will cut taxes for 95 percent of workers, because we need to put money back into the pockets of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The trick never ages; the illusion never wears off. Vote to stop abortion; receive a rollback in capital gains taxes. Vote to… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“You know that one scene that shows up at the end of every heist movie, where the crooks recline on the beach… — Jeremy Gantz Copy Share Image
I love to tell how I'm suffering because one percent we're paying 25 percent of the total. We're not paying 25 percent… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
“Yes, Pilcher was a money-man. They were a type. It was easy to spot them. You could always tell one by that… — Cameron Hawley Copy Share Image
We want to keep a preferred rate for capital gains - we think it is important to encourage investment. — Gary Cohn Copy Share Image
I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One basic myth is that rich people get wealthy by earning income. But that's not how most get rich. Most of the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
I think if you had a capital-gains system where the long, patient capital would actually be rewarded, nanosecond capital turning would not… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The wealth in many large estates has never been taxed because it is largely in the form of unrealized - therefore untaxed… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
“The government can put dividends on the same tax basis as capital gains if the tax authorities allow investors to obtain a… — Jeremy J. Siegel Copy Share Image
Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it… — Allen West Copy Share Image
