States with high and rising tax burdens are more likely to…

Any substantial tax reform would involve substantial redistributions of tax burdens and substantial changes in asset values, and you need some 'lubrication' (i.e., transition…

— Robert Reischauer

“The high taxes and regulatory burdens they favor have the effect of protecting established businesses. To accumulate a fortune requires earning a high rate…

— Don Watkins

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

— Thomas Sowell

Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries…

— Salman Rushdie

History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has…

— Douglas MacArthur

Now that economic realism has finally arrived in India, the future lies in becoming a strong economic power. Dominance in the world will come…

— Mukesh Ambani

House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national…

— Ben Bernanke

Strong economic growth, and especially a significant increase in private sector investment, is the only sustainable path forward for Rwanda.

— Paul Kagame

President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States.

— Benigno Aquino III

I have learned some core lessons along the way. Among the most important, I have become a firm believer that a strong geopolitical relationship…

— Max Baucus

I think, and there's a pretty strong economic consensus on this, that at that juncture you should spend more, even though it may sound…

— Thomas B. Edsall

With every new corporate inversion, the tax burden increases on the rest of us to pay what these corporations don't.

— Dick Durbin

No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.

— Ronald Reagan

5: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1944: The G.I. Bill will…

— Joseph Conrad

In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses.

— Joni Ernst