When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. — Plato Copy Share Image
Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“The U.S. government needs to learn from successful private businesses that run an effective and efficient operation in serving their customers and… — Newton Lee Copy Share Image
I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save… — Griffin Dunne Copy Share Image
Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Expanding the sales tax base contradicts the primary function of California's sales tax law, stifles innovation and hurts our state's robust e-commerce… — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
“Sare! Why are you giving me your tax face?’ ‘I'm not.’ ‘You are.’ Pause. ‘Shit, I'll need to do my tax soon.” — Lucy-Anne Holmes Copy Share Image
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
To be sure, the Fair Tax is a big idea. However, I believe America was built on big ideas, and I was… — Rob Woodall Copy Share Image
For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Watch out Mr. Bush! With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy… — Tom Toles Copy Share Image
The tax that is taken from the free non-Muslim subjects of a Muslim government whereby they ratify the compact that assures them… — Edward William Lane Copy Share Image
Today, if you're an American business, you actually get a benefit for going overseas. You get to defer your taxes. So if… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Having won re-election convincingly and against the economic odds, President Obama quickly made good on his promise of maintaining taxes as they… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
It is urged that the use of the masculine pronouns he, his, and him in all the constitutions and laws, is proof… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I'd make an educated guess that 20 to 25 percent of the taxable property in the U.S. is Church-owned.In a recent book,… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I want to end tax dumping. States that have a common currency should not be engaged in tax competition. We need a… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“[Obama] was highly praised, including by his supporters, for his statesmanlike attitude during the lame-duck session, bipartisanship, and getting legislation through. What… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are 11 states in the United States that in the last 50 years instituted an income tax. So I looked at… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
People who think a tax boost will cure inflation are the same ones who believe another drink will cure a hangover. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I firmly believe the death tax is good for people from all walks of life all throughout our society. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
I agree with Warren Buffett's rule of tax fairness that billionaires shouldn't pay lower tax rates than teachers like my mom. To… — Colin Allred Copy Share Image
I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners,… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. — Mike Royko Copy Share Image
All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
When it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy of this country, the President has a heart of gold. — Tip O'Neill Copy Share Image
The top threat that gets very little focus from Washington these days is what Adm. Mike Mullen identified as the biggest threat… — Mark Sanford Copy Share Image
Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and… — James Cook Copy Share Image
We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public… — James Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image