The ability to defend yourself is a basic necessity like food and water. We exempt food and water from the sales tax. — Matt Shea Copy Share Image
Public unions are the country's foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that. — Joe Lhota Copy Share Image
Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work. — Zach Wamp Copy Share Image
It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for "art" that leaves him unmoved--if he does pay for it, the money has to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Thats one of the challenges of investing in China, is the lack of clarity with respect to tax positions. — Jim Oberweis Copy Share Image
If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase. — Pat Toomey Copy Share Image
The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
Government spending clearly needs some adjusting. But a budget is a statement of our priorities, and balancing our spending on the backs… — Paul Tonko Copy Share Image
Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now.… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or… — Bob Schieffer Copy Share Image
This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Observe your cat. It is difficult to surprise him. Why? Naturally his superior hearing is part of the answer, but not all… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Inflation has ... become the cruelest tax, destroying the value of the dollar and adding new costs to every purchase. — Ella T. Grasso Copy Share Image
I understand that the legal position is under review in South Africa and that there will soon be a broader set of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
When the Liberals said they were going to create a million new jobs, I didn't think they were all going to be… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
It's time to permanently lower America's tax gate so that the $2 trillion in stranded U.S. profits can flow back into America… — Kevin Brady Copy Share Image
What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what… — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
Because of fiscal responsibility, we will keep taxes low and maintain important priorities like IPERS. — Kim Reynolds Copy Share Image
Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I'm working alongside the White House and other members in the House to lessen the tax burden that currently weighs on so… — Markwayne Mullin Copy Share Image
How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual? — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Relative to the world's other advance democracies, Americans get off easy on tax day. Of the 35 richest countries, the U.S. ranks… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing. — Julie Bishop Copy Share Image
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes.… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those… — Jack Kelly Copy Share Image
Nine times out of ten, people consider a nice little Jewish boy the kid who grows up and sits behind a desk… — Bill Goldberg Copy Share Image
Simply looking at the status quo and suggesting that the tax code is sacrosanct and can never change, and that decisions made… — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth. — David Malpass Copy Share Image
Tax reform exists, sort of, as an outline - miles away from being actual passed legislation. — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
The only way you can do that [decrease taxes, balance the budget, and increase military spending] is with mirrors… — John B. Anderson Copy Share Image
History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss. — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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