#api

When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains. ↗

— Rob Portman

#bush #capital #capital gains #clinton #economy

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning. ↗

— George Reisman

#capitalism #each #economic #engages #individual

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#life

I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs. ↗

— Ed Rendell

#capital #capital investment #creating #environment #expand

Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building. ↗

— Mercer Reynolds

#building #capitol #children #conspiracy #few

The proportions, too, in which the capital that is to support labour, and the capital that is invested in tools, machinery and buildings, may be variously combined. ↗

— David Ricardo

#capital #combined #invested #labour #machinery

We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes. ↗

— Mickey Rivers

#mistakes #our #right

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism. ↗

— Dora Russell

#co-operation #common #common good #competitiveness #expect

Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#administration #agreed #being #capital #democratic

It made Daniel think. The people who had the least were the most willing to share. He outlined a dictum that he would believe the rest of his life: the more people have, the less the give. Similarly, generous cultures produce less waste because excess is shared, whereas stingy nations fill their landfills with leftovers. ↗

— Mark Sundeen

#compassion #humanity-and-society #money #life