Fairness Quote by Noam Chomsky

One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions - what has…

— Robert Pollin

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application…

— Eliot Spitzer

The Value-Added Tax, a sales tax that applies at every level of business transactions, is an easy tax for governments to collect, and a…

— T.R. Reid

Financial transaction tax raises problems of competition.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

We need to consider a financial transactions tax. And we need to ask whether the top marginal tax rates are really appropriate, given that…

— Pete Buttigieg

We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions.

— Hillary Clinton

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

— Jean-Baptiste Say

[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our present tax…

— John F. Kennedy

An optimised tax structure gives us the possibility of flexibility in using our assets that have already been taxed in one market. They can…

— Ingvar Kamprad

“To maximize the return of your taxable account, you want to minimize the taxes you pay.”

— Taylor Larimore

I am for a transactional tax at the point of purchase for both online and physical retail.

— Theo Paphitis

The sales tax is the best and most equitable tax. The gasoline tax, which is nothing but a sales tax, has proven painless, productive…

— Will Rogers