“they spoke well of Rome, for the taxes did not appear heavy, compared to the previous great taxes demanded by robber bands” — Richard Ben Sapir Copy Share Image
We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular… — John Sherman Copy Share Image
An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
GOP candidates routinely sign a pledge never, ever to raise taxes. Democratic candidates aren't even asked to sign a parallel pledge never,… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes. — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country:… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The day after Republicans won solid majorities in the House and Senate, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader-to-be Mitch McConnell… — Cleta Mitchell Copy Share Image
The [Donald] Trump plan would increase the national debt a little over a $1 trillion a year, the Trump plan would reduce… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City.… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
I have never yet had anyone who could, through the use of logic and reason, justify the Federal Government borrowing the use… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as… — Mark Hertsgaard Copy Share Image
I'm the strongest advocate you can imagine for doing things honestly and paying your taxes. Take advantage of every tax break you're… — Michael Franzese Copy Share Image
We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Any Democrat who squirms on the tax-cut issue in the primaries has no chance ' zero ' to win the nomination. Each… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Contrary to any claim of a systematically “neutral” effect of taxation on production, the consequence of any such shortening of roundabout methods… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure. — Norman Tebbit Copy Share Image
Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't… — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
We're the highest taxed nation in the world. When I finish the plan, we'll be among the lower taxed, which is very… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Donald Trump would not lose a single voter over any report indicating that his tax plan might not work. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes. — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable. — Yannick Noah Copy Share Image
Would higher taxes and a crumbling economy help women succeed, either personally or professionally? I don't think so. — Lara Trump Copy Share Image
In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
In the natural life, we eat, we drink water, we give birth, we pay taxes. In the spiritual life, we can only… — Vitor Belfort Copy Share Image
The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to… — Danny K. Davis Copy Share Image
I've never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers' money. — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
I just don't think it's good public policy to tax fuel. It's kind of silly. It stops people from traveling and actually… — David Neeleman Copy Share Image
If we hit the debt ceiling, that's... essentially defaulting on our obligations, which is totally unprecedented in American history. The impact on… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
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