Redistributive Taxation Quotes & Sayings

Whatever the "Christian conservatives" in America say, there is no one set of rightful opinions that follow on automatically from your belief. If you have signed up for the redeeming love of God, you don't - you really don't - have to sign up too for low taxes, creationism, gun ownership, the death penalty, closing abortion clinics, climate change denial and grotesque economic inequality. You are entirely at liberty to believe that the kingdom would be better served by social justice, redistributive taxation, feminism, gay rights and excellent public transportation. You won't have the authoritative sanction of the gospel for believing in those things either, of course. But you can. — Francis Spufford

You definitely are deep water Dr. Fisher. Fathoms deep. — J.M. Richards

we face the woeful prospect that we're intelligent creatures living in a meaningless world. — Steve Hagen

Sci-fi fans are awesome. They're very smart, they like to be involved, they like to ask questions. I've been asked questions I don't even know the answer to. I've never had any aggressive interactions. I've had lovely interactions. — Rachel Nichols

No amount of money can compensate losing your purpose — Sunday Adelaja

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill. — Ravi Shankar

I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal. — Max Hastings

I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's designs, and we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest. — Adam Savage

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion. — Jasper Johns

There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact
in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself
of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were. Were I, for instance, a political conservative who opposed using taxation as a means of redistributing national wealth, I would be delighted to watch PC progressives spend their time and energy arguing over whether a poor person should be described as "low-income" or "economically disadvantaged" or "pre-prosperous" rather than constructing effective public arguments for redistributive legislation or higher marginal tax rates. [ ... ] In other words, PCE acts as a form of censorship, and censorship always serves the status quo. — David Foster Wallace

Being a depressed hippie is a lose-lose. It would be like if a rice cake had the caloric content of a MoonPie. — Adam Carolla