There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
A budget matters to people who worry about protecting and saving critical programs like Medicare and Social Security. A budget matters to… — Susan Brooks Copy Share Image
As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy.… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Economically, long-term joblessness means fewer dollars for consumption. For deficit control, it means fewer taxpayers contributing to government revenues and tens of… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
He who has annexed them, if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the one, that… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Every instance of this stuff, from this tax return business to the illegality. You know who is actually breaking the law in… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Tax arrangements can be incredibly complicated and are sometimes made deliberately so, which is why some people pay vast sums of money… — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the… — Craig Benson Copy Share Image
It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Countries, therefore, when lawmaking falls exclusively to the lot of the poor cannot hope for much economy in public expenditure; expenses will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
He who has annexed them [some principalities], if he wishes to hold them, has only to bear in mind two considerations: the… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty.… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The theory of the IRS is rather repugnant to me because the assumption is made that I, the government, owns 100% of… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax?… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want… — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience. . . . Indeed, as is well known,… — Edd Doerr Copy Share Image
Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going,… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I organized tax resistance in 1965, with a friend. I kept at it for about ten years. I don't see it as… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you took every single penny that Warren Buffett has, it'd pay for 4-1/2 days of the US government. This tax-the-rich won't… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
I am specifically concerned about the idea that the legislative process is one that gets characterized the way it is as the… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too… — Daniel J. Evans Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
There's no growth. If China has a GDP of 7 percent, it's like a national catastrophe. We're down at 1 percent. And… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I'm lucky enough to be in… — David Duval Copy Share Image
Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
“The expenses of government, having for their object the interests of all, should be borne by every one, and the more a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads.… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it. But you… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
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