More and more people are becoming aware that government has nothing to give them without first taking it away from somebody else-or… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is… — Mo Udall Copy Share Image
Why should the residence of a preacher be untaxed? Useful citizens must pay taxes on their homes. Yet the Preacher - actually… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous to assume you can tax the people that are working and give the money (to people) who are not… — Yaron Brook Copy Share Image
For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets… — Avro Manhattan Copy Share Image
It's interesting because the Thai king says there's no prostitution in Thailand, it doesn't exist, so the prostitutes don't pay taxes. They… — Michael Glawogger Copy Share Image
“the decrease in the top marginal income tax rate led to an explosion of very high incomes, which then increased the political… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
He should release the tax returns tomorrow. It's crazy. You've got to release six, eight, ten years back tax returns. Take the… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
Maybe we should be directing our anger elsewhere - like toward Wall Street. Why is it we never think of Big Business… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The potential savings in the national budgets from the elimination of police, criminal courts, standing armies, pollution control agencies, drug enforcement, and… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts… — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks… — Dan Benishek Copy Share Image
Aw, I feel bad if [Taylor] was upset. I am a feminist, and she is a young and talented girl. That being… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
President Obama has repeatedly urged Congress to let the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year. Increasing… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“the regional governments can't raise taxes. The source of revenue would simply leave for another region. In fact, the effect of decentralization… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Why I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I spent ten years in the private sector, actually learning how business works. I'm the governor of Ohio, and I inherited a… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor… — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
I am pretty sure central banks will continue to print money, and the standards of living for people in the western world,… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
While inflation adjusted average hourly earnings rose 2.4% during Trump's first three years in office, they have declined 2.2% under Joe Biden.… — Scott Bessent Copy Share Image
People say, 'If you don't vote, then you don't have a right to say anything. But nine times outta 10, I pay… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
If you talk about the prison-industrial complex, I've fought against the prison-industrial complex when I called for a repeal of the Rockefeller… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
At a time when the United States is handing out tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, corporate jet owners, and… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
When I first got money, I went through it like everybody else, because I didn't know. But, right now, I've educated myself… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
If you believe Jesus ever had a good word for war or torture or tax cuts for the rich, or raping the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected… — Peter MacKay Copy Share Image
The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
David and Charles Koch are pretty much as far right as you can get on the ideological spectrum without falling off. They… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
If we do nothing, we are handing our children a ticking time bomb that will require they pay ever greater payroll taxes… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are… — Byron Dorgan Copy Share Image
The question is: What can we, as citizens, do to reform our tax system? As you know, under our three-branch system of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image