Daniel J. Mitchell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent on food, clothing, housing, and transportation combined. Compare this to the plight of medieval serfs. They only had to give the lord of the manor one-third of their output - and they were considered slaves. So what does that make us?
-- Daniel J. Mitchell

#Average #Giving #Liberty
... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all taxpayers. The rich directly benefit, since greedy politicians are unable to seize as much of their money. And the rest of us benefit, since this puts downward pressure on tax rates as governments try to keep the geese that lay the golden eggs from flying away.
-- Daniel J. Mitchell

#Eggs #Government #Political
Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.
-- Daniel J. Mitchell

#Political #Exhausted #Politician
Giving people like Dodd and Frank more authority is like rewarding an arsonist with gasoline and matches.
-- Daniel J. Mitchell

#People #Giving #Gasoline
All the forms of double taxation in the current system are punitive and self-destructive because they are literally destroying people's incentive to provide that seed corn for future economic growth.
-- Daniel J. Mitchell

#Self #People #Growth

If you can predict the rate at which you create (or create and grow) qualified pipeline, and you know your average close rate(s), then you can start predicting your revenue.
We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
The average man. The emergence of the concept.
In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.
The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is MadhusÃ¼dana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses
Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs
Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.
The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

Daniel J. Mitchell famous quotes

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