Income tax Quote by Angus Deaton Download Open image “Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.” — Angus Deaton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Income tax Much Revenue Say Tax
High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Here's a brave old reality, taxes don't go away; raising them never generates revenue, never ever ever. — Neil Cavuto Copy Share Image
An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenue to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs… — John Fitzgerald Kennedy Copy Share Image
Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from… — Barack Obama Sr Copy Share Image
Under my plan, 85 percent of America will pay no tax or have a flat tax at our lowest rate of 15 percent. — John McCain Copy Share Image
A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt production… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
Cuts in tax rates on individual and company income nearly always produce more revenue, not less. — John Redwood 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 been the… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I don't think income solely determines health. I think lots of other things determine health. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
I, who do not believe in socialized health-care, would advocate a single-payment system... because it will get this monster that we've created out of… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Many people have mixed views about unions, but unions used to give people some measure of control at work. They gave them a social… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
I've always - and not always happily - considered myself an outsider. Certainly at Fettes. And then the Scots are always outsiders in England.… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
People who have children, by and large, want children. People who don't want children are people who, by and large, don't want to have… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
The first thing we need to understand when we think about globalization is that it has benefited an enormous number of people who are… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
High quality, open, transparent, and uncensored data are needed to support democracy. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
“It can be bad if the winners try to stop others from following them, pulling up the ladders behind them.” — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
A good theoretical account must explain all of the evidence that we see. If it doesn't work everywhere, we have no idea what we… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
Growth does not bring any 'automatic' improvement in the health component of wellbeing. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges. — Ralph Goodale Copy Share Image
I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to… — T. Coleman Andrews Copy Share Image
We're talking about should we increase taxes? Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
President Trump repeatedly says that "America is the highest-taxed country in the world." This is an alternative fact. We pay less in taxes, and… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
If you're a full-time manager of your own property - and full-time, according to Congress, is 15 hours a week - you can take… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
