Taxes Quotes by Jane Mayer

“the group couldn’t find a single family farm put out of business by the estate tax.”

— Jane Mayer

“Amway in fact was structured to avoid federal taxes.”

— Jane Mayer

“only 0.27 percent of all estates were wealthy enough to be affected by estate taxes. The”

— Jane Mayer

“the history of the income tax, which began as a tax only on the 0.1 percent and was never designed to target…

— Jane Mayer

“Between 1981 and 1986, the top income tax rate was cut from 70 percent to 28 percent. Meanwhile, taxes on the bottom…

— Jane Mayer

“Andrew Mellon himself would have been pleased with the succession of hefty tax cuts that Reagan pushed through Congress. He slashed corporate…

— Jane Mayer

“Obama accused the Republicans of giving “more than $1 trillion in new tax breaks to the wealthy” and argued that it was…

— Jane Mayer

“But the 1970s kicked off a three-decade-long “tax-cutting spree” during which the wealthiest 1 percent succeeded in getting their average effective federal…

— Jane Mayer

David and Charles Koch are pretty much as far right as you can get on the ideological spectrum without falling off. They…

— Jane Mayer

“A 2008 study of the wealthiest four hundred taxpayers, for instance, showed that they earned an average of $202 million and paid…

— Jane Mayer

“Once in public office, Mellon helped define the 1920s as an era during which business succeeded in rolling back many of the…

— Jane Mayer

“Before Congress instituted the federal income tax in 1913, following the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, America’s tax burden…

— Jane Mayer

“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