Book of Genesis Quotes

Only those who till the king’s land have to pay a tax on the profits they make. Those who want to go away may go.... The king and his administration uses no corporal punishment; criminals are merely fined according to the gravity of their offense.

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.

What I want to do is make certain that no one's taxes go up. Let's look at cleaning up the tax code.

North Carolina needs to revamp the tax code completely. We have some of the highest tax rates, like the corporate tax rate, in the country.

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

The tax code is now nine times longer than the Bible, and not nearly as interesting.

We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers.

A fiftieth part of (the increments on) cattle and gold may be taken by the king, and the eighth, sixth, or twelfth part of the crops. He may also take the sixth part of trees, meat, honey, clarified butter, perfumes, (medical) herbs, spices, flowers, roots, and fruit; Of leaves, pot-herbs, grass, objects made of cane, skins, of earthen vessels, and all (articles) made of stone.

It isn't easy, you know, to govern Egypt.

The Egyptian flood is upon us. Pharaoh had just as much business to pursue the Israelites as we have to meddle in Egypt …. However, our policy must now be determined by the effect which the triumph of the Madhi would have on our Mohammedan subjects.

We are in favor of raising all public revenues by a single tax upon land values.

We should take a look at our tax system every 75 years or so.

A provision for the sale of the vacant lands of the United States is particularly urged, among other reasons, by the important considerations that they are pledged as a fund for reimbursing the public debt; that if timely and judiciously applied they may save the necessity of burdening our citizens with new taxes for the extinguishment of the principal; and that being free to discharge the principal but in a limited proportion, no opportunity ought to be lost for availing the public of its right.

There is spending in the tax code.

Tax reform is not for the faint-hearted.

A tax code becomes an instrument of social policy.

Our tax system rewards wealth more than it does work.

Nationalization of Land

Those who make money off of money get a better deal in the Tax Code than those who make money from hard work.

We have a tax code that favors debt over equity.

For decades, American companies, large and small, have been competing with one hand tied behind their backs thanks to our unfair, outdated tax code.

I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.