The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history,… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
These 2.3 million prisoners, somehow we've convinced ourselves that's normal and rational, more prisoners than soldiers, more prisoners than China, more than… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what… — Dave Obey Copy Share Image
...It is statistically irrefutable that those American cities with stringent "gun control" (e.g. N.Y.C., D.C., Chicago, L.A.) have higher crime rates. It… — Kenneth W. Royce Copy Share Image
...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Here in Iowa, as a state senator, I have worked hard to find solutions that work for our state and as a… — Joni Ernst Copy Share Image
It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point.… — John Neff Copy Share Image
Competition is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share Image
Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support:… — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
If asked my opinion about virginity, I would say, "I'm opposed to it." I don't think it deserves to be celebrated, at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
By any reasonable standard of proof, the combination of human epidemiology and track-analysis demonstrates that there is no threshold dose or dose-rate… — John Gofman Copy Share Image
We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you… — Laura Chinchilla Copy Share Image
I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
The billionaires pay an effective tax rate lower than nurses or truck drivers. That makes no sense at all. There has to… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable… — William James Copy Share Image
Let's take the nine states that have no income tax and compare them with the nine states with the highest income tax… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
Blu-ray and the technologies emerging around it are the premiere format for reproducing what we do as filmmakers. There's more space on… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
The only reason the president insists on raising [tax] rates is because he knows it will destroy Republican unity, it will cause… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Remember to stop as often as necessary to re-connect your energy. Stay full, stay in a state of love. Remember that once… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
Obviously, you can't operate a system at 100 percent capacity. You need room for growth. And because there are peak times, you… — Steven Pearlstein Copy Share Image
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity… — Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill Copy Share Image
It's like living in a retirement home! Clarence is taking a nap right now, and he eats at five. It's so boring."… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Mr. Greenspan did a very good job in the early 1990's. But recently he's fallen prey to this crazy theory that prosperity… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
We now know from a Princeton study that Superfund sites are causing higher rates of birth defects. We now know that there's… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
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