Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I joined a gym recently. I don't have the best history in the world of sticking with my fitness regimens, but I… — Christian Finnegan Copy Share Image
Life, is torture , people use you betray you steal from you , you have to pay the government to exist through… — JFS Copy Share Image
I would acknowledge that [Paul] Ryan has some really good ideas about things, and I think they'll get together, like taxes. Larry… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts,… — Richard Neal Copy Share Image
We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need… — John Raese Copy Share Image
People who thing that they are getting something for nothing, by having government provide what they would otherwise have to buy in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is a direct link between the federal tax cut of 2001 and state tax increases in 2003. When the federal government's… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
Rather than address the priorities of the middle class, the Ryan budget is an attack on American seniors, students, workers, and families… — Albio Sires Copy Share Image
Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If you have a 50 percent match and you get in trouble financially, you can either withdraw money as a loan, or… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
The point being we used to have a system that wasn't as rigged in how the tax structure functioned. The president [Barack… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Here in Iowa, as a state senator, I have worked hard to find solutions that work for our state and as a… — Joni Ernst Copy Share Image
Only now are increasing numbers of political and social scientists beginning to realize that Kelso's theories provide a private-property-based alternative to the… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
It's the spring of 2012, that the [Barak] Obama administration would be embracing the argument that the Affordable Care Act was a… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist… — James Traficant Copy Share Image
A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing… — Lane Evans Copy Share Image
History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national,… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
You've got to of course create jobs, you've got to increase the tax base, but progressive taxation those limited powers that we… — Humza Yousaf Copy Share Image
If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it, you're a dumb-ass. And if… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
As more and more Americans own shares of stock, more and more Americans understand that taxing businesses is taxing them. Regulating businesses… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
It is a Constitution that morphs while you look at it like Plasticman… That is contrary to our whole tradition, to in… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Conservatives won't want to hear this, but the Republican who maneuvered his way into the most impressive victory of the election was… — Fred Barnes Copy Share Image
In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
In fact, in Parliament, I pointed out that Australians on average incomes would move into the second highest tax bracket in the… — Joe Hockey Copy Share Image
I sit in the Senate, and see what Republicans are often advocating, it's those kind of tax loopholes for the richest of… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time… — Clint Black Copy Share Image