Mark Noble Quotes

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.

When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would be supportive of.

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

Texans should not be taxed on our taxes.

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

There's a lot of evidence you can sell people on tax increases if they think its an investment.

The art of taxation consists in plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

I cannot support taxing the taxpayer.

If you raise taxes on the rich, you don't raise much money. I mean, this is one of the things that the U.S. is doing, but it's doing it for political reasons, not for financial reasons.

Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.

I'm not going to raise taxes.

We have no interest in raising taxes.

As a general rule, governments are wise to avoid taxation that is voluntary, as they need a steady stream of income.

From an emotional standpoint it's very easy to say don't raise taxes, and no one wants to raise taxes.

Either you're going to have to vote for taxes or not vote for taxes. So, if you've already voted for taxes, you've already done it.

Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.

We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.

Economists are almost unanimous in conceding that the land tax has no adverse side effects. ...Landowners ought to look at both sides of the coin. Applying a tax to land values also means removing other taxes. This would so improve the efficiency of a city that land values would go up more than the increase in taxes on land.

I do want the tax system to be efficient and be conducive to growth, which it is not.

Even if you assume that the whole economy would work better had we never had double taxation, having the envy and resentment of the richest paying low or no taxes screams of injustice. You have to have a fair system.