In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes. — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive. — Joseph McKenna Copy Share Image
Almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share. — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
The reality is (Clinton's) so-called tax cut is basically giving money to people who largely don't pay taxes, so that it's really… — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Warren Buffett's company reportedly owes the IRS a billion dollars in back taxes. When he said he wasn't paying enough taxes, he… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling. — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
The second area, taxation, we agree, we ought to bring the tax rates down. And I do, both for corporations and for… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
If you want to see where Trump is moving, look at what the United States neoliberals advised Russia to do after 1991,… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Despite all the taxes people pay, there supposedly isn't any money in this country for art. Of course, this makes an artist… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Is keeping Big Oil happy with subsidies from the American people more important than addressing our deficit? Should a billionaire who makes… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
When we get this health care done, America, we're going to be able to have regulations on how heavy you can be.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I was under contract with Walt Disney at the time. I was co-starring in my second season of a show called, Texas… — Betty Lynn Copy Share Image
“I don’t know the answer, but I know that the fiscal cliff is real. It can’t be discounted like Y2K fears. In… — Marvin H. McIntyre Copy Share Image
We really believe that we can bring about changes in the tax code that will make America more attractive for investment and… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I would just say it's not good for the country to have 11 million people here who we don't know who they… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins.… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax." I whirled around to find the real Patch standing in… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Once Confucius was walking on the mountains and he came across a woman weeping by a grave. He asked the woman what… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Simplifying and reducing the cost to develop in areas the state has designated for growth is the best way to build vibrant… — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
[American tax laws] are constantly changing as our elected representatives seek new ways to ensure that whatever tax advice we receive is… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let's give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington,… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Andrea Leadsom also denies any tax avoidance, says she 'shopped around' for a good deal and it was from a British bank… — Laura Kuenssberg Copy Share Image
“it took two full years for final congressional action on the Tax Reform Act of 1986 after the Treasury had already done… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and… — Cleta Mitchell Copy Share Image
Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden… — Bill Delahunt Copy Share Image
You either make it illegal, in which case you support a huge underground economy or you tax it within the limits people… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
One of the cruellest things of all is to have a huge deficit in this country, meaning that everyone's children will be… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
Policymakers should take note that tax proposals are always veiled in good intentions, but many times the negative consequences remain unseen. — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
As a captain of industry, I would prefer more tax breaks to help people buy houses, but as a citizen, I realize… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
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