There are only two honest ways to reduce our debt: cut spending or raise revenues. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form. — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
“There's always hope." "So? There's always taxes, too. It doesn't make any difference.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Our tax plan by the way shows the vast, vast majority of Americans, upwards of 96 percent can fill out their taxes… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Grow jobs. Get this economy growing. Raise wages. Simplify the tax system, so it's easy to comply with. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure… — Payne Stewart Copy Share Image
If you want to help the poor, help the poor, and with your own time and money. Liberals prefer to do it… — Kevin Hassett Copy Share Image
I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break. — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are… — Jay Kay Copy Share Image
If we want to jack up the tax rates on the really rich, the amounts of money that would bring in are… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Joe Biden would destroy jobs, raise our taxes, and throw away the lives of countless unborn children. — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to… — Terry Savage Copy Share Image
During the Jim Crow era, poll taxes and literacy tests kept the African-Americans from polls. But today, felon disenfranchisement laws accomplished what… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
Mexico in some form, and there are many different forms, will reimburse us and they will reimburse us for the cost of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
What does it mean when Republicans and Democrats alike warn us about the 'pain' involved in cutting government spending - in their… — Theodore J. Forstmann Copy Share Image
So many theories. But all of them have one thing in common: They demonstrate that although Trump isn’t much of a businessman,… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
I guess it's like trying to put through the flat tax, which is probably my favorite one of all… if we did… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I found Viola Desmond was the first woman whose case was taken up in the courts, and it wasn't that she tried… — Constance Backhouse Copy Share Image
Once you have an equalization instrument in place, as you have in Canada, there arise tremendous bureaucratic values - bureaucratic rent so… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
“Death duties in Harcourt’s time were a comparatively modest 8 percent on estates valued at £1 million or more, but they proved… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
You don't want atheism shoved down your throat? OK. We will stock knocking on doors spreading our 'Truth,' and having tax-exempt organizations… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump and all the Republicans believe in the theory of trickle down economics which is a theory discredited even by the… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
I thought you liberals cared about people, but here you're perfectly content to get them addicted to tobacco and make them pay… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn't work? — John Boehner Copy Share Image
“the group couldn’t find a single family farm put out of business by the estate tax.” — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee. — Russell Pearce Copy Share Image
If, at the end of the day, we need to raise taxes, we should raise taxes. — Paul Volcker Copy Share Image