David Neeleman Quotes

… about 30 percent of the value of renewable power tax credits end up benefitting financiers rather than funding renewable energy production.

One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.

It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.

The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.

Its no secret that I've never liked tax credits.

There is no difference, in fairness or economics, between lowering taxes on a favored group and spending money on a favored group.

There are other ways of raising money other than the income tax….We got along pretty well without it for many years.

If you tax something, you get less of it. If you subsidize something, you get more of it.

That’s why the tax code is so long [76,000 pages]. So we can take advantage of it.

It’s not easy to get rid of tax loopholes. The reason they are there is that people wanted them there.

Many liberals argue that big U.S. companies don't really pay the top corporate rate. While this is sometimes true, it's mainly because, during recessions, companies lose money, and get a tax loss carryforward that temporarily reduces their effective rate. But during economic expansions, when profits rise, companies then do pay the top rate.

When a state offers your company an attractive package of incentives to relocate, you have to look at it, and if it significantly boosts your bottom line, you have to take it or answer to your investors.

If you can't get tax breaks, then there's no reason to film in a city or state.

Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

Tax reform is taking taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed.

Not only have [rich] people like me not been asked to sacrifice, but they have had money [tax cuts] thrown at them.

There is spending in the tax code.

Developers play one of us off the other, forcing us to reduce our taxes to attract their development. Everyone is being forced to reduce their tax level to a point where it's not economical.

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted

No average citizen in America today can figure out the tax code.

Taxes must produce ample revenues without discouraging enterprise; and if it is to be just it must distribute the burden of taxes equitably.

People who receive mortgage tax relief … do not consider themselves to be benefits of government largess and can thus blithely talk about the government as something irrelevant to their lives except as a tax burden.

We have a tax code that favors debt over equity.

Arthur Laffer has taught us, 'If you tax something, you get less of it.' That's why firms are moving offshore in droves. It's not about being unpatriotic. It's that it doesn't pay, after-tax, to invest in the United States.

The best way to get more tax from the rich is to cut rates. The best way to deliver more jobs for the less well off is to cut tax.