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So why do you think the rich should pay more in taxes?

Now he's put together some thoughts: About half of that he'll cut, another half, perhaps in a very complex set of steps, taxes will be approved.

We hire the most people; we create the most taxes.

So we said over a 20-year time period, the value to the city in increased property values and increased taxes would be about 250 million.

It has lower taxes.

But these apps are like little digital reminders that we're not just consumers, and we're not just consumers of government, putting in our taxes and getting back services.

Moreover, this transition needs no new inventions and no acts of Congress and no new federal taxes, mandate subsidies or laws and running Washington gridlock.

We're politically addicted to growth because politicians want to raise tax revenue without raising taxes and a growing GDP seems a sure way to do that.

All of System D really doesn't pay taxes, right?

And when I think about that, first of all I think that government is a social contract between the people and the government, and if the government isn't transparent, then the people aren't going to be transparent either, but also that we're blaming the little guy who doesn't pay his taxes, and we're not recognizing that everyone's fudging things all over the world, including some extremely respected businesses, and I'll give you one example.

We can just raise taxes a bit and close that gap, especially if we raise taxes on the rich.

Why don't we lower government spending and lower government taxes, and then we'll be on an even more favorable long-term deficit trajectory?

Now when it comes to taxes, there is more disagreement.

Raising taxes on investment income, you also see about two thirds of Democrats but only one third of Republicans are comfortable with that idea.

People started to drop less litter in the streets, for example, started to pay taxes, started to feel something they had forgotten, and beauty was acting as a guardsman where municipal police, or the state itself, were missing.

And in the pile were things like zero taxes for 20 years, or that we'd help to build a new factory for the company, we'd help to finance it.

And everybody of course knows that the federal government debt is growing as a share of GDP at a very rapid rate, and the only way that's going to stop is some combination of faster growth in taxes or slower growth in entitlements, also called transfer payments.

Now, one objection you often hear, or maybe you don't hear it because people are too polite to say it, is, why should I pay more taxes to invest in other people's children?

So for example, numerous research studies have shown if you look at what really drives the growth rate of metropolitan areas, it's not so much low taxes, low cost, low wages; it's the skills of the area.

I mean, I'm an economist, but this is ultimately not an economic question, it's a moral question: Are we willing, as Americans, are we as a society still capable of making the political choice to sacrifice now by paying more taxes in order to improve the long-term future of not only our kids, but our community?

Our democracies are weakened in the global economy with players that can evade laws, evade taxes, evade environmental or labor standards.

Well, we've all heard about what they are, I think, and we all know they're used quite a bit by people and companies who are trying to avoid paying their proper dues to society, also known as taxes.

And if "Where do you come from?" means "Where do you pay your taxes?

One set of causes is political: lower taxes, deregulation, particularly of financial services, privatization, weaker legal protections for trade unions, all of these have contributed to more and more income going to the very, very top.

Think of all the years reformers of various stripes have tried to get rid of corruption in Russia, for instance, or how hard it is to re-regulate the banks even after the most profound financial crisis since the Great Depression, or even how difficult it is to get the big multinational companies, including those whose motto might be "don't do evil," to pay taxes at a rate even approaching that paid by the middle class.

We pay taxes, we vote occasionally, we watch the men and women we choose rule rule more or less without us.

It's meeting needs at a profit that leads to taxes and that leads to incomes and that leads to charitable donations.

They're beginning to see illegal activities on these properties, like illegal dumping, and they know that because the city has lost so much population, their costs for water, electricity, gas are rising, because there are not enough people to pay property taxes to help support the services that they need.

I pay my taxes.

We really need regulation, we need subsidies, taxes on carbon.

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