If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
During these continued tough economic times, writing a sensible, fair budget that provides real opportunities for Washington families, workers and businesses is… — Jeanne Kohl-Welles Copy Share Image
I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles. — Luis Fortuno Copy Share Image
The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Until Washington gets its spending under control, inflation will continue to rise and it's hard-working families that will continue to pay the… — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
Tens of billions ... are going into the pockets of tens of thousands of tax preparers who ... love complexity as much… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax. — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
When you first make money, you're just excited that you have it and just buy things on a whim. You don't really… — Eric Nam Copy Share Image
My second biggest mistake in life, for which I have no one to blame but myself, is having accepted payments in cash… — Brian Mulroney Copy Share Image
Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices… — George Will Copy Share Image
That’s not who we are as a nation, and let me tell you why: Because the Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy’s… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
I am interested in government spend quality, as it accounts for the biggest chunk of the social spending pie. Hundreds of foundations… — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Life is full of joys and sorrows, much of it our own making. Sadly, the West has voted time and time again… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Tea Party attendees and health care town-hall protesters share the common belief that the extravagant spending of President Obama and the Democratic… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide… — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness. — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Curious if you know of any tax breaks for people who didn't commit a heinous financial crime this year. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production. — Lynn Westmoreland Copy Share Image
If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes; they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do… — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
I think it's time that the wealthy and corporations paid their fair share to support this country. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
As a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It is the large brain capacity which allows man to live as a human being, enjoy taxes, canned salmon, television, and the… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Copy Share Image
If two firms join together, we want their total tax bill to go up because we don't want more big firms. We'd… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
The traditional divide between left and right, capital and labor, small state and big state, high taxes and low taxes doesn't define… — Leo Varadkar Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of doing tax reform, but I think tax reform ought to be revenue neutral as it was back during… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
When they talk about raising your taxes, I think raise the taxes on some of these countries that are taking advantage of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strategy, and the fraud, waste, and abuse… — Russ Carnahan Copy Share Image
I used to say the wealthiest among us have to pay our fair share, which I still occasionally say. That's not dodging… — Phil Murphy Copy Share Image
Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no… — Laozi Copy Share Image
One of the cruellest things of all is to have a huge deficit in this country, meaning that everyone's children will be… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image