Land Quote by Charles Dudley Warner Download Open image “The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.” — Charles Dudley Warner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Land Raised Taxes
Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land tax, rather… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides of the… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
I think they got caught up in how much money they could get from each of the city governments as far as tax rebates.… — David Neeleman Copy Share Image
“Property taxes - particularly those which tax only or primarily the land and not the improvements - are the closest approximations we have today… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across… — Mark Noble Copy Share Image
“Progressive taxes are inherently flawed in that they fund public services which are often location-dependent, thus adding to the value of owned land. Thus,… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
“The many governments within a single metropolitan area are almost designed to fight among themselves because state law makes them largely dependent on locally… — Bruce Katz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Who pays property taxes? We all do, either directly in property tax bills or through higher rents and other costs. — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
As a former mayor, I know that local governments must have control over land use decisions. — Elton Gallegly Copy Share Image
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
The onion and its satin wrappings is among the most beautiful of vegetables and is the only one that represents the essence of things.… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be! — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Knowldeg is the mother of all virtue all vice proceeds from ignorence — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Whenever I was flying commercial, I would land in Chicago, and they would announce, 'Get your passports out.' It happened so often, I would… — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes before the… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image