Steve Forbes Quotes on Business & Commerce (8 Quotes)

You get huge changes in the last seven to 10 days as people really focus. I come from the business sector, where competition is a daily fact of life.

Tax code confusion is not only costly for low-income people who must pay the costs of a tax preparer. It prevents them from identifying and getting much-needed tax breaks.

That means deepening the personal income-tax cuts, reducing capital gains, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax, and doing something about double taxation of dividends.

With other nations adopting a flat tax, we'd better get our act together, ... My own feeling is that it's going to happen in five years, and if the Republicans don't seriously move on this in the next two or three years, I think an entrepreneurial Democra

The flat tax is a tax cut. Any way you slice it, your tax bill will be reduced under the plan... Under the flat tax, 65 million returns, or 42 percent of all returns, would owe no tax by the year 2010. That's right. We'll say it again Millions of lower-income people will not have to pay any tax.

Tax-cutter John F. Kennedy was right A rising tide does indeed lift all boats. From 2005 to 2015 the flat tax would generate 56 billion more in net government income tax revenue than the current tax code, according to Fiscal Associates, whose forecasts are based on the method, in increasing use today, of dynamic analysis.

For some reason the politicians always find reasons why they need more of your money. The people of Tennessee should say no to an income tax. It is an enormous advantage for this state. Don't loose it.

We must encourage American businesses and farmers by weeding out the excessive red tape that Washington has been creating over the past decade. Regulations act as a hidden tax, and if we are not careful, they can begin to suffocate small businesses, destroy jobs, and choke off economic growth.