More people working and paying taxes reduces government expenditures and helps us move a little closer to balance. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Good intentions often get muddled with very complex execution. The last time the government tried to make taxes easier, it created a… — Brad D. Smith Copy Share Image
There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hotlines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The emphasis so far on fiscal austerity, while to a degree necessary for the countries facing market funding difficulties, is excessive when… — Charles Dallara Copy Share Image
Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand. — Dan Rooney Copy Share Image
Why is it that if you take advantage of a corporate tax break you're a smart businessman, but if you take advantage… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Finally, in the Mississippi state Senate, earmarks are often hidden in bond bills, which I have voted against many times, because our… — Chris McDaniel Copy Share Image
Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
If you are wealthy and can hire enough accountants and attorneys, you can find ways around the code. It's fundamentally not fair.… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut. And if you make less… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a… — John Redwood Copy Share Image
I actually think the border tax - the concept of border tax is more of a trade issue than it is a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going… — John McCain Copy Share Image
When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It was an easy thing to tax for a young country. And then gradually we moved to property taxes, manufacturing taxes, and… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
I don't want to cost jobs. My priority is jobs. And so what I do is I bring down the tax rates,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The churches rose to power on the income from tax-free property. What earthly -or heavenly- right have they got to enjoy a… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Instead of ending U.S. military aid to the 23rd wealthiest country to use for its consistent violations of international law and human… — Phyllis Bennis Copy Share Image
I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Even if Bush could be forgiven for taking America, and much of the rest of the world, to war on false pretenses,… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Where taxes are concerned, there are two clear-cut points of view. There are those who think they're too high and those who… — Burt Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story. — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
Tax cuts create more jobs and this is something we as Republicans have to do a better job of marketing. — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist… — J. P. Morgan Copy Share Image
Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
We need to open up private sector markets. We need to empower small business people, working Georgians, and entrepreneurs. — Brian Kemp Copy Share Image
The tax code gives you an enormous advantage if you can find some things you can just sit with. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime! — Evel Knievel Copy Share Image
There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money… — Chaka Fattah Copy Share Image
Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people. — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the… — Roy Jenkins Copy Share Image
The government has to spend money during a recession, because their spending is our earning. — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business. — Allen West Copy Share Image
