We have, during his regime, during President Obama's regime, we've doubled our national debt. We're up to $20 trillion. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich. — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I made a promise to you and the people of our state when I was running for governor: I promised I would… — Tony Evers Copy Share Image
The U.S. Senate is considering a bill that would tax Botox. When Botox users heard this, they were horrified. Well, I think… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Effective tax credits are used to create jobs and grow our economy. But tax credits that aren't delivering for Missourians must be… — Jay Nixon Copy Share Image
I'm not for a temporary war tax. We're putting actual dollars in one way or the other, and so if we're gonna… — Stephen Pagliuca Copy Share Image
Now they got such a high inheritance tax on 'em that you won't catch these old rich boys dying promiscuously like they… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
If we keep kicking the can down the road, if we follow the president's lead or if we pass the Senate budget,… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Law Number XX: In any given year, Congress will appropriate the amount of funding approved the prior year plus three-fourths of whatever… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Republican tax cut threatens to undercut both veterans health care and the veterans educational benefits that have been recognized for decades… — Lane Evans Copy Share Image
Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I'm very, very concerned ultimately, as Medicaid costs increase in my state and most states, it's going to reduce funding for state… — Dave Heineman Copy Share Image
I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it. When religion controls government,… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
“... economists recognize that, other things equal, cuts in tax rates reduce tax revenues in percentage terms by less than the tax-rate… — Campbell McConnell Copy Share Image
I don't know a lot of writers, even writers who have been on the bestseller list for a few weeks, or writers… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
In a sense, George W. Bush has used the tragedy of the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the nightmarish expansion of… — Sidney Blumenthal Copy Share Image
“Lefever describes his financing plan with modesty: "'Our detailed budget is realistic, but does not take into account the inflation that may… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Whether my acting was obscene, or whether it was distasteful, well, Judge Rehnquist, who just recently passed away couldn't define pornography. His… — Harry Reems Copy Share Image
I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack.… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
The President must stop gambling with taxpayers' money and get the country back on the path of fiscal sanity. — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
Debt is not caused by spending, it is caused by buying things that you don't pay for. Or, it's caused by cutting… — Steny Hoyer Copy Share Image
By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth. — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
I suggested that countries with tighter finances think about such a [fuel] tax. We don't have the time at the moment for… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
We're actually just moving one type of deficit to another. But, the problem with this second type of deficit is that you… — Ezra Klein Copy Share Image
Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Whether he knows it or not, the middle-income American is taxed as though he were living in a socialist society.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
With every new corporate inversion, the tax burden increases on the rest of us to pay what these corporations don't. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
I believe that hardworking people should retain as much of the money as they can in terms of the taxes that they… — Karren Brady Copy Share Image
Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The best thing you can say about offshore investors is that they're tax cheats in their home countries. — Harry Markopolos Copy Share Image
We don't compete in the world by offering tax advantages to a few that we don't give to all our citizens and… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
I don't accept as an article of faith that lots of short-term stimulus boosts the economy and gets us back on the… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image