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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
Vince Cable
The United States tax system today is very prejudiced towards financialization, leverage, and lack of investment.
Frederick W. Smith
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Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
Barack Obama
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The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world.
Thomas Piketty
I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way.
Ben Carson
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What I'd like to do is continue a private sector, free market Main Street types of policies. And those include less regulation. They include a fairer, flatter tax system.
Bill Flores
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I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero. The U.S. has the most antiquated tax system. And that means some people are going to pay more taxes, and some people are going to pay less.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
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Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire federal tax system, replace it with a fair tax, a consumption tax, that by all measurements is just that. It's fair.
Gary Johnson
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We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.
Manmohan Singh
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Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.


Mike Fitzpatrick
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We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill
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We are a nation at war - and we should act like it.


Peter T. King
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A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
Sophia Loren
It's not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 when the country was just out of the industrial era. There hasn't been a substantial systemic change the way we do high school since then.
Laurene Powell Jobs
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Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.


George Osborne
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I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.


Vito Fossella
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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.


Antonin Scalia
We are committed to doing trade, tax reform, infrastructure. All we need is someone that wants to work with us.
Kevin McCarthy
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The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.
Stella Young
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This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.


Pauline Hanson