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
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
“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
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
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
My brother is a tax guy, and the way I look at it, it's like he's spending his life saving money for… — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Everything [Ronald Reagan] got, the tax cuts, he had Democrats outnumbering him in the House and Senate everywhere. There were certain realities… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
But an opinion that it is possible for the present generation to seize and use the property of future generations has produced… — John Taylor of Caroline Copy Share Image
[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training,… — George R. Roberts Copy Share Image
You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes… — John Linder Copy Share Image
He [Barack Obama] talked about deficit reduction. This got me he was talking about how the deficit's being reduced faster in the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If Obama can force you to get health insurance just by calling it a tax, than there is nothing to stop him… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part,… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Covertly invest into non-White areas, invest in ghetto abortion clinics. Help to raise money for free abortions, in primarily non-White areas. Perhaps… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers realized that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," which is why they did not give the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
Successful businesses create jobs; that is true. But the notion that if we cut taxes enough for the very rich and for… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing our potential when we've got what's effectively… — Mark Sanford Copy Share Image
Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
79 senators, including that great conservative Elizabeth Warren, said they didn't like the medical device tax, so we will go at that… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but… — Mark Dayton Copy Share Image
The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can,… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
When you start cutting government expenditure, at some point you are cutting essential services rather than excessive services. So you have to… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
Smokers in our culture are hated and despised. Smokers, people look down on 'em, don't want anything to do with them. Smokers… — Rush Limbaugh 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
![“Everything [Ronald Reagan] got, the tax cuts, he had Democrats outnumbering him in the House and Senate everywhere. There were certain realities that he faced. But the biggest tax increase on Social Security was authored by none other than Bill Clinton.” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ade/rush-limbaugh-28_bills_everything-ronald-reagan-got-the-tax-cut_106367.jpg)
![“[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b42/mark-twain-22_cents_i-shall-never-use-profanity-except-in-di_2142983.png)
![“He [Barack Obama] talked about deficit reduction. This got me he was talking about how the deficit's being reduced faster in the last 60 years. That's because he's collected more taxes. That's like bragging that you paid your rent after you robbed a bank. It makes no sense.” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca8/barack-obama-17_barack_he-barack-obama-talked-about-deficit-red_842320.jpg)
![“The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, [etc. ] the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to…” quote by Calvin Coolidge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b6/calvin-coolidge-764_appropriation_the-appropriation-of-public-money-always_2164807.jpg)
