Here in Iowa, as a state senator, I have worked hard to find solutions that work for our state and as a… — Joni Ernst Copy Share Image
The point being we used to have a system that wasn't as rigged in how the tax structure functioned. The president [Barack… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Only now are increasing numbers of political and social scientists beginning to realize that Kelso's theories provide a private-property-based alternative to the… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist… — James Traficant Copy Share Image
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Life, is torture , people use you betray you steal from you , you have to pay the government to exist through… — JFS Copy Share Image
If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I joined a gym recently. I don't have the best history in the world of sticking with my fitness regimens, but I… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
I would acknowledge that [Paul] Ryan has some really good ideas about things, and I think they'll get together, like taxes. Larry… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts,… — Richard Neal Copy Share Image
We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need… — John Raese Copy Share Image
There is a direct link between the federal tax cut of 2001 and state tax increases in 2003. When the federal government's… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
People who thing that they are getting something for nothing, by having government provide what they would otherwise have to buy in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Since taking office in 2008, the Barrow Administration failed to stimulate the necessary economic growth. Instead they have, over the more than… — Said Musa Copy Share Image
What the Tea Parties are standing for is constitutional principle. It's not fundamentally about tax rates or whether to have a consumption… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended ... that Congress… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We have to define our top priority pending expenditures; these are, first and foremost, our social expenditures, and we have to cut… — Anton Siluanov Copy Share Image
Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Elites want to cut taxes and stop government regulation of business. Evangelicals want to make America a Christian nation. And alt-right voters… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The generals who had called Zia a mullah behind his back felt ashamed at having underestimated him: not only was he a… — Mohammed Hanif Copy Share Image
Those public employee union bosses think they already control the legislators, they already control everyone up there in Sacramento, and now, because… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
Well, higher-income people don't have to pay taxes if they don't want to because they can move their money somewhere else, they… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Every presidential candidate for decades has released his tax returns, and I've released 33 years of my tax returns. The American people… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Now, do I think the tax code should be simplified? Absolutely. Will Donald Trump do away with things like this? He probably… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Cap and trade generates special interests, lobbyists, and trading schemes, yielding non-productive millionaires, all at public expense. The public is fed up… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
We're going to bring a lot of money in on trade. We're going to bring a lot of money on reciprocal. You… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
You have to separate what needs to be done to avoid the fiscal cliff and what needs to be done longer range.… — Sander Levin Copy Share Image
Finally, let's keep well in mind the most important lesson of the auto rescue: While government should stay away from the private… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
What the Democrats do with income inequality is punish the people at the top of whatever bracket we're talking about. If it's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which… — Jerry Weller Copy Share Image
Under the Trump tax plan, we are no longer going to subsidize big government in blue states. Now those who choose to… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
Both parties recognize the fundamental danger the country's debt poses to our nation's future, but President Obama's policies have not reflected that… — Kim Reynolds Copy Share Image
It is a general maxim that all governments find a use for as much money as they can raise. Indeed, they have… — James Smith Copy Share Image
In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image