Policymakers should take note that tax proposals are always veiled in good intentions, but many times the negative consequences remain unseen. — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden… — Bill Delahunt Copy Share Image
You either make it illegal, in which case you support a huge underground economy or you tax it within the limits people… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
I made a promise to you and the people of our state when I was running for governor: I promised I would… — Tony Evers Copy Share Image
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
As a captain of industry, I would prefer more tax breaks to help people buy houses, but as a citizen, I realize… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
We don't know what our health care costs are going to be. We don't know what our tax rates are going to… — Jim Renacci Copy Share Image
Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its… — William Greider Copy Share Image
Republicans remain silent because Trump is doing what they want - lowering taxes on the rich, eviscerating regulations, bulldozing the environment, and… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates -… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
We have to get the tax revenues up. That means we have to get back to a healthy American economy, grow the… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
I am willing to work with anybody who wants to have a serious conversation about our fiscal future. We're not going to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Every time we've had a pro-growth fundamental tax reform, be it under President Reagan, President Kennedy - you can even go all… — Jeb Hensarling Copy Share Image
Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich. — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
We have, during his regime, during President Obama's regime, we've doubled our national debt. We're up to $20 trillion. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share. — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive. — Joseph McKenna Copy Share Image
In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes. — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The reality is (Clinton's) so-called tax cut is basically giving money to people who largely don't pay taxes, so that it's really… — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
You can't use the tax code as a penal system because you don't like what a country is doing. — John Layfield Copy Share Image
I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven… — Richard Neal Copy Share Image
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Andrea Leadsom also denies any tax avoidance, says she 'shopped around' for a good deal and it was from a British bank… — Laura Kuenssberg Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington,… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and… — Cleta Mitchell Copy Share Image
“it took two full years for final congressional action on the Tax Reform Act of 1986 after the Treasury had already done… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Warren Buffett's company reportedly owes the IRS a billion dollars in back taxes. When he said he wasn't paying enough taxes, he… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
[American tax laws] are constantly changing as our elected representatives seek new ways to ensure that whatever tax advice we receive is… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let's give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
Simplifying and reducing the cost to develop in areas the state has designated for growth is the best way to build vibrant… — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling. — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image