The left does understand how raising taxes reduces economic activity. How about their desire for increasing cigarette taxes, soda taxes? What are… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
It's that time of year again, April 15, taxes. I know it's depressing, but just remember, you're paying for roads, bridges, hospitals,… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it continues until it destroys. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It is easier to start taxes than to stop them. A tax an inch long can easily become a yard long. That… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now… — Richard E. Berendzen Copy Share Image
I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film! — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
It was really shocking to me that when I was dating a dude I could get married and my taxes were 8… — Sia Furler Copy Share Image
If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did. — Chaka Fattah Copy Share Image
If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you… — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
The theory of government I was taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
The whole - it's the economy's bad. It's bad for everybody. I have my own comedy club. I opened it three years… — Jon Lovitz Copy Share Image
Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is… — Blanche Lincoln Copy Share Image
I don't act because I love doing it, I act because it's my job. At the end of the year, I gotta… — Clint Howard Copy Share Image
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Gay Marriage isn't Special Rights, it's Equal Rights. 'Special Rights' are for political churches that don't pay taxes. — John Fugelsang Copy Share Image
Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The U.S. has the most complicated and difficult tax system in the world; we've made it hard to file and pay taxes. — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Anybody who tells me theyre not going to pay tax weve got an NHS system on its knees I tell you what,… — Robson Green Copy Share Image
Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs is considered an amazing genius and made billions of dollars. Sure, we overlook that he didn't pay his share of… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
Good governance takes behavior that is negative or not helpful to the greater good of society, whether it's polluting behaviour, plastics, or… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio stations, U.S. artists aren't compensated when their records are… — Neil Portnow Copy Share Image
No one could argue with a straight face that the couples getting married today are much happier just because their wedding celebrations… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
I would tell China that if you don't straighten out your manipulation of the currency - and I mean fast; I mean… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Growth works. What we're doing in the administration to spur growth in terms of regulatory form work. And what we're working is… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
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