After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
The challenges presented by our budget crisis are some of the most difficult we have ever faced. We are -very simply put… — Kathleen Blanco Copy Share Image
Some people do rely too much on technology. Look, technology is wonderful and I love it. When I was in the UK… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers'… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has.… — Lane Kirkland Copy Share Image
What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
President Bush said that if illegal immigrants want citizenship, they'd have to do three things: pay taxes, hold meaningful jobs, and learn… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I like to tell small business owners and entrepreneurs, 'I get it. I have your back on this. I understand about regulation.… — Linda McMahon Copy Share Image
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
You have to abolish pension plans. You have to abolish social spending. You have to raise taxes. You have to have at… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
You can't lift people out of poverty simply by tweaking the tax system, or by raising the minimum wage by a few… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and… — Brian Baird Copy Share Image
Millions and millions of people don't pay an income tax, because they don't earn enough to pay on one, but you pay… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the western world don't realize how much taxes limit their options. You can end up paying almost… — Pavel Durov Copy Share Image
When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of… — Robert Walpole Copy Share Image
The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they… — Bob Graham Copy Share Image
I hold that two principles are important; first that there should be a steady expansion of public services, not an irregular one… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
For the protection of state and welfare of the people, a ruler shold collect all types of wealth. By suing devices of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
This is what class warfare looks like: The Business Roundtable - representing Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and others… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
As chairman of the tax-writing House Ways & Means Committee, I continue to be inspired by President Reagan's 1985 national address to… — Kevin Brady Copy Share Image
I should say that Canada is one of the major criminals, not just the tar sands and so on, but even mining… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Once you say you're going to have to tax them coming in, and our politicians never do this, because they have special… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Reform immigration to make it easy for individuals to come over here, be documented, pay taxes - immigration reform is needed to… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
In nations that have become too complex, taxes and regulation cause at least a doubling of the amount employers must spend on… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan… — Pat Toomey Copy Share Image
“The intelligent man, when he pays taxes, certainly does not believe that he is making a prudent and productive investment of his… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Fred Harrison claimed in his book Ricardo's Law: House Prices and the Great Tax Clawback System that property owners are generally able… — Martin Adams Copy Share Image
The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that in 2016, the corporate income tax raised $300 billion in revenue, while what it called… — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image
We're the highest taxed nation in the world. Our middle class is just reeling from the taxes. And you know, if you… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I employed my wife for three years to sit in the attic and type up my autobiography, 700 pages, organise everywhere I… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
I believe capital gains, for the most part, should be taxed the same way we tax income from hard work, sweat, and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
