Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
We have to reduce the burden placed on our economy by years of deficits and debt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We want to make sure that tax reform doesn't increase the size of the deficit. — Steve Mnuchin Copy Share Image
“To maximize the return of your taxable account, you want to minimize the taxes you pay.” — Taylor Larimore Copy Share Image
You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Obviously, you want to get the best deal possible for yourself, but teams just don't want to spend that money for fear… — Jason Terry Copy Share Image
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in… — Joe Manchin Copy Share Image
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Gay marriage is a tricky issue for the Democrats due to the fact that - like taxes, defense and education - they… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The social and racial conflict, which springs from the redistribution ideology, may deepen as economic output is shrinking and transfer 'entitlements cause… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
Only the federal government has the power to spend beyond its current revenue. It shouldn't do that when the economy is at… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
I'm not looking to cut massive taxes and to reduce the...the revenues going to the government. My...my number-one principal is, there will… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The United States needs a much more progressive tax-and-transfer infrastructure, given how dramatically inequality has increased. But not every single policy needs… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
You have a sense that [Donald] Trump will probably reimagine where the Republican Party is on that issue and some others. But… — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world.… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
When you understand that your tax dollars pay for those tear gas canisters that were being fired into the crowd, and when… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
“Like, suppose Massachusetts were to increase business taxes. Most of the population is in favor of it, but you can predict what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim:… — Frederic C. Howe Copy Share Image
A tobacco industry has been a fairly linear and predictable industry. You know what's going to happen every year. You know from… — Andre Calantzopoulos Copy Share Image
The focus, to my mind, is to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States. I think… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The healthcare bill is a] headlong rush into socialism…we will not stand for the Obama-Pelosi-Reid hijacking of our freedom and democracy so… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
There is only one way to kill capitalism - by taxes, taxes, and more taxes. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I fought for the U.S. government. I live in New York. I pay taxes in America. — Shaggy Copy Share Image
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners. — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image