What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When you add up all the loopholes and deductions that upper-income individuals can...are currently taking advantage of, you take those all away,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We have to have structural entitlement reform, major spending cuts and not tax increase-retardants on economic growth to reverse our current course… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
By the way on economics, South Carolina is an example to the country of what we should be doing as Americans. This… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
God forbid that Americans earning, say, more than $1 million a year be asked to pony up a little more in taxes… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
The citizens of Puerto Rico pay taxes with no representation every day, because Puerto Rico is not a state. And the rules… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
A study by Treasury economists estimated that a country with a tax rate one percentage point lower than another country's attracts 3… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
We do not have a revenue problem in D.C. or this county. We have a prioritization problem. When you create the priorities… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
The other thing that's really important in tax reform is making sure that we don't tax American businesses at much higher tax… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I think if there was an ISP tax of some sort, we can say to the consumer, 'All music is now available… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
Our broken tax code is one of the main reasons the United States lags behind when it comes to economic growth, job… — Kevin Brady Copy Share Image
Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public… — Robert Reich 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
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
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
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 could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
You look at the U.S. budget deficit, and you cannot help but feel that this is a serious accident waiting to happen.… — Charles Dallara Copy Share Image
Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
It is an inconvenience, being located in a city where taxes are ludicrously high, where you pay twice your annual income to… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with paying taxes; they should be paid in proportion to how rich you are. This idea that you're going… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the reason I want to increase these taxes on the top 1%, the most profitable corporations, is to increase quality of… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
A huge segment of the country has always felt overtaxed. In 1938, when taxes were roughly 17% of income, a 'Fortune' survey… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Money is a topic that touches all races, all religions, all sexes, all ages, all tax brackets. It's a universal language that… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
The tobacco buyout comes at no cost to the taxpayers, and remedies the action taken by the federal government that would otherwise… — Saxby Chambliss Copy Share Image
Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
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