Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers,… — Michael Barone Copy Share Image
I think America is strong enough to fix the problems, grace and honor to D.C. I think energy independence and control spending.… — Ryan Zinke Copy Share Image
There are lots of other things that affect state growth besides state taxes. However, the reason I look at taxes is because… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
Government schools can go for decades delivering low-quality services, and what's the result? The people who manage it earn higher pay. It's… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
By eliminating the tax breaks and special interest loopholes that primarily benefit the wealthy, our framework ensures that the benefits of tax… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I still care deeply about so many thing. And so I'm going to be engaged. I'm going to be out there as… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“Businesses and other organizations spend more than six billion hours each year complying with the federal tax code. Estimated compliance costs conservatively… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Where Republicans encourage popular myths about taxes, spending, and climate change, Democrats tend to stoke our fantasies about the sustainability of entitlement… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
When we get the private sector going through job creation and growth, then the governments at all level have revenues to do… — Jim Talent Copy Share Image
Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
People need to remember that to balance the federal budget off the backs of the poorest people in the country is simply… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
I was involved in the 'reformicon' effort in 2013-2014, which was explicitly, 'We can't just Xerox Reagan.' In the spirit of Reagan,… — Bill Kristol Copy Share Image
Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words,… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
During the 2005 Bush tax holiday, corporations didn't bring back the billions they stashed overseas to build new factories, increase wages, or… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
What we have in the Bush team is a faith-based administration. It launched a faith-based war in Iraq, on the basis of… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan was long thought to be the most conservative of Republicans. And by any standard today he is the most popular… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
They have two aspects. One is that they're unpredictable, and that often rich and more affluent households are slow to spend the… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I don't use my money to gain political influence for my private interests, which is what many rich people do, and what,… — George Soros Copy Share Image
One of the reasons some of the advocates of ever larger government and more government intrusiveness get nervous about discussions of the… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Acts slashes taxes on the very wealthy and kills regulations with the idea that rich businessmen will… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
If you can clean up the cesspool of the tax code and give us a pro-growth tax code, that is how you… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hate talking to media. I hate it, man. You have to. But it's crazy. I thought there were only two things… — D'Angelo Russell Copy Share Image
I get audited almost every year.And in a way, I should be complaining. I'm not even complaining. I don't mind it. It's… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Who cares what the state thinks about your relationship? They're giving you tax breaks and this and that - it's just nonsense.… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden - a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He [Donald Trump] said in the debate - he said, gosh, I'm being audited for two years. Then he said three years.… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
![“I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health care for those who are served under Medicaid, that end our duty or violate our duty to our parents through Medicare. I just couldn't do that. As long as I'm…” quote by William J. Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/def/william-j-clinton-302_care_i-could-never-allow-tax-cuts-that-devast_701459.jpg)
![“Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession, the worst since the 1930s. That was in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes…” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/945/hillary-clinton-51_1930s_let-s-stop-for-a-second-and-remember-whe_3099032.jpg)
![“If you can clean up the cesspool of the tax code and give us a pro-growth tax code, that is how you grow the economy. That's how you take power and money out of Washington and give it back to the people and we are so excited. We have a president [Donald Trump] that is here to work with us in doing…” quote by Paul Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d64/paul-ryan-869_clean_if-you-can-clean-up-the-cesspool-of-the_1837650.jpg)
![“He [Donald Trump] said in the debate - he said, gosh, I'm being audited for two years. Then he said three years. Then he said maybe five years. Listen, if there's a problem in his taxes, the voters have a right to know, because come September, October, the general election, folks in the media are…” quote by Ted Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f55/ted-cruz-487_debate_he-donald-trump-said-in-the-debate-he-sa_2252163.jpg)
