Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I'd make an educated guess that 20 to 25 percent of the taxable property in the U.S. is Church-owned.In a recent book,… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
My tax plan will cut taxes for 95 percent of workers, because we need to put money back into the pockets of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Denmark is charging a fat food tax on cheese, meat, and oil. Here, we call that the Denny's Grand Slam breakfast. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
It isn't inevitable that we have a globalization which is used by the corporations not to pay taxes. It is not inevitable… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Analysis of President Bush's tax plan has revealed that several elaborate tricks and gimmicks were used to make it look like a… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The most expensive care we can give, we're giving those Americans without insurance. It's kind of stupid that we're fighting the notion… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Rather than rewriting the law under the pretense of interpreting it, the Court should have left it to Congress to decide what… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating. — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
What I always say with these things, when you`re trying to do comprehensive things like tax reform, there will be 20,000 lobbyists… — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The way to connect with voters on the plan is to simply give the facts. Fifty per cent of taxpayers pay 97… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Obviously, you want to get the best deal possible for yourself, but teams just don't want to spend that money for fear… — Jason Terry Copy Share Image
My rule is when in doubt hire a professional. You could do it just this year and then you have direction to… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
It's a tough path to citizenship. You've got to pay back taxes. You've got to learn English. You've got to have a… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many countries, even socialist Sweden and former communist Russia, have done away with their death taxes. They found the confiscation of wealth… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Americans have a choice to make: higher taxes or fewer health care entitlements. We'll probably have to choose both. But as each… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
The tax incentives are things the music business can emulate. If I own Yesterday by the Beatles and I go to a… — Chris Thomas King Copy Share Image
What it 't to us, if taxes rise or fall, Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. Let muckworms who… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
[Companies] are not going to be leaving, go to another country, make the product, sell it into the United States, and all… — Donald Trump 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
Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
“The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life...The government does not, indeed,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If you're going to buy something which compounds for 30 years at 15% per annum and you pay one 35% tax at… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image