I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
We must infuse our lives with art. Our national leaders must be informed that we want them to use our taxes to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I would vote to increase the debt limit if there was a corresponding level of cuts. And if there was some serious… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we have moved from… — Chaka Fattah Copy Share Image
Public officials are permitted to finance or subsidize their own activities through taxes. That is, they are permitted to engage in and… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are… — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
Most of the millions of unauthorized and undocumented immigrants in the United States are essentially permanent residents. They raise families, own homes… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
This is the disease in America. It's not just spending. It's not just taxes. It's not just corruption. It is progressivism. And… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Deficits, as I've often said, aren't caused by too little taxing, they're caused by too much spending. Presidents can't appropriate a dollar… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax returns overseas for processing. But the… — Melissa Bean Copy Share Image
You'll better understand the evil when top audit firms started selling fraudulent tax shelters when I tell you that one told me… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
I think it's important to look at what we need to do to get the economy going again. That's why I said… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I would be very, very strong on the debt limit. And I would be asking for a very big pound of flesh… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction… I wish to… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
On Capitol Hill, the Republican-controlled House voted mostly along party lines tonight to pass President Bush's federal budget blueprint. This includes his… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
So if the tax plan he described were a tax plan I was asked to support, I'd say absolutely not. I'm not… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about Trump is that he is so completely predictable. Hillary Clinton knows that if she teases him about either… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
You have educate the masses to exactly what their tax dollars are going to pay for. I think once people educate themselves… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Jesse Jackson's in trouble. They're going after this tax thing. Jesse said he will amend his taxes to show the money that… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
President Obama's proposal to raise the top rate to 39 percent is equal to the rate under President Clinton in the 1990s… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, maintain vital services, protect Social Security and Medicare, invest more in education… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
We have got to cut the spending. We have got to fix Medicare and Social Security. And actually, if we don't cut… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
If one generation is expected to carry an excessive burden on behalf of another, it will seek by every means to avoid… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
I served on the budget committee in the Senate, and I remember as vividly as if it were yesterday when we had… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
And I have to tell you as a grandmother, I worry about the fact that my grandchildren are going to be paying… — Geraldine Ferraro Copy Share Image
There will be a major border tax on these companies that are leaving and getting away with murder. And if our politicians… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As my father-in-law once said, when they talk about taxes it's always for teachers, firemen, and police - but when they spend… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
In 2007, after hearing the case of a taxpayer who was charged one month's worth of interest for being only one day… — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Debt ceiling is something that, you know, any time the president asks for the authority to increase the debt ceiling, the debt… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
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