"If a thousand shares of stocks or..." - Quote by Will Rogers
If a thousand shares of stocks or bonds make nothing, you pay nothing. But on a thousand acres of land you pay enough to support half the community who own no land and pay no taxes.
More by Will Rogers
“America has the best politicians money can buy.”
“Democrats always were a cheap lot. They never had much money to operate on.... They would rather make a speech than a dollar. They cultivate their voice instead of their finances.”
“That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.”
More on Taxation
“In time of this grave national danger, when all excess income should go to win the war, no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year.”
“No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.”
“A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.”
More on Finance
“No one pushed harder than Congressman Barney Frank to force banks and other financial institutions to reduce their mortgage lending standards, in order to meet government-set goals for more home ownership. Those lower mortgage lending standards are at the heart of the increased riskiness of the mortgage market and of the collapse of Wall Street securities based on those risky mortgages.”
“The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.”
“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation”