Cities Quote by Bruce Katz

You'll find a lot of rural municipalities, very, very big district municipalities that actually have no tax base whereas our system of government presumes…

— Thabo Mbeki

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

— Charles Dudley Warner

“the regional governments can't raise taxes. The source of revenue would simply leave for another region. In fact, the effect of decentralization without guaranteed…

— John Ralston Saul

And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the…

— Chris Christie

Taxation is probably one of the biggest problems this state is facing, especially in Cook County. I think Cook County is one of the…

— Jesse White

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and,…

— John C. Calhoun

I look at the idea of eliminating the state and local tax deduction as a geographic redistribution of wealth, because you're taking money from…

— Lee Zeldin

Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little…

— Adam Smith

Local tax increases can cause high-net-worth individuals to move, tax experts said; tax avoidance and tax arbitrage are multitrillion-dollar affairs, and rich people are…

— Annie Lowrey

These are serious problems in all of our major cities: homelessness, education, there are are a number of them. And they require hard thinking…

— Andy Jassy

“If Americans actually understood the structure of our taxes, they would not only become angry, they might also find our economic and political systems…

— Richard D. Wolff