The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent… — Charlie Cook Copy Share Image
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a… — Richard Neal Copy Share Image
To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains,… — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image
Women taking care of children . . . it makes sense to pay them for that work . . . they should… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't see why a man shouldn't pay an inheritance tax. If a Country is good enough to pay taxes to while… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out the entire… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When a man pays a tax, he knows that the public necessity requires it, and therefore feels a pride in discharging his… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
The black money issue should not be misunderstood as one of merely avoiding taxes. It is, in fact, a major systemic crime… — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
After Brexit referendum, our country faces major challenges. Risks to the economy and living standards are growing. The public is split.The government… — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
What a day for the Tea Party people. Did you see that? America's parks and fairgrounds were lost in a sea of… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
When you don't have as much debt as we do, we don't have to worry about having this debt ceiling fight every… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The push to defund public schools and reroute taxpayer money to charters and private institutions is actually a very clever strategy by… — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
The deficit - the U.S. knows our deficit is too large. We are committed to bringing it down. We are bringing it… — John W. Snow Copy Share Image
On Capitol Hill, House Republicans have been doing our part. We've been hard at work developing policies that will help empower all… — Dennis Hastert Copy Share Image
In an economy, when the government spends more and invests in the economy, that money circulates, and recirculates again and again. So… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government… — Zach Wamp Copy Share Image
Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The people who are having the hard time right now are middle-income Americans. Under the president's policies, middle-income Americans have been buried.… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Puerto Rico loses out on billions of dollars annually because it is treated unequally under a range of federal programs, including tax… — Pedro Pierluisi Copy Share Image
Taxes are necessary. But the system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last… — Richard Neal Copy Share Image
Our tax code becomes so absurdly complex every 32 years that we have no choice but to scrap it and re-write. The… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class,… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Stoners just got a powerful new ally in the fight to legalize marijuana - conservative broadcaster Pat Robertson. He said it's time… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell… — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
I'm an American citizen. I pay my taxes. I want my equal rights. But this is my country, and consequently, I don't… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City -… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes,… — Andrew Jack Copy Share Image
