We need a simpler, fairer tax code that protects taxpayers. Not special interests. — Kevin Brady Copy Share Image
The [budget] deficit isn't the immediate problem for most people, the weak economy is. — Cynthia Tucker Copy Share Image
Most people I know have had problems paying their taxes. I am just like everybody else. — Michael Caputo Copy Share Image
Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Deficits and debt threaten the growing American economy and our national security over the long term. — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
A budget matters to Americans who can't afford to see their taxes go up or lose the jobs that would be destroyed… — Susan Brooks Copy Share Image
From an emotional standpoint it's very easy to say don't raise taxes, and no one wants to raise taxes. — Wayne Messam Copy Share Image
The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I believe in a progressive tax structure that fairly distributes the costs of government in a way that those of us fortunate… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Everybody gets ticked off about GE paying no taxes. Look, we have a complicated, convoluted tax system. And only big corporations and… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
New taxes are so unpopular that most 'social' handout schemes are originally enacted without enough increased taxation to pay for them. The… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
What we've been hearing over and over again is that the reason Republicans are opposed to the surtax is because of the… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
The whole - it's the economy's bad. It's bad for everybody. I have my own comedy club. I opened it three years… — Jon Lovitz Copy Share Image
We cannot have a full economic recovery, we cannot ensure the security of this country, while the states are in the midst… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
The only way to reduce our national debt is to grow the economy and cut spending. We have no idea how our… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Taxes aren't the way to go. They'd strangle the economy; you wouldn't create the wealth. And nothing squanders money as well as… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
It's obvious that a lot of Tea Party members tend to be elderly. You've seen that famous sign, 'Tell the government to… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
Its contempt for citizens ... is so routine, and so unlimited, that the agency has become a kind of Frankenstein, running wild… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton tried the approach that I'm talking about. We created 23 million new jobs. We went from deficit to surplus. And… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We need to remake and reinvent our housing system so that it supports the flexibility and mobility of our economic system broadly.… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
“The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image