Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil. — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The only one benefiting from this, the American taxpayer, almost half of our taxes, our income taxes, are going to the military… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
A 'free loader' is someone who doesn't pay the mandate tax, but NOT someone who pays no income tax. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One tax dodge often used by multi-national companies is to squirrel their earnings abroad in foreign subsidiaries located in countries where taxes… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Women taking care of children . . . it makes sense to pay them for that work . . . they should… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money,… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people,… — Joseph E. Brown Copy Share Image
Consider how badly-built suburbia is. Many business buildings are not designed to outlast their tax depreciation periods, and the McHouses are made… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
One of the biggest disagreements between Sen. Hagan and I - I don't believe we should be building an economy that's founded… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
This country pays a price whenever our economy fails to deliver rising living standards to our citizens - which is exactly what… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
There is an aesthetic crisis in writing, which is this: how do we write emotionally of scenes involving computers? How do we… — Quinn Norton Copy Share Image
From secrecy and deception in high places; come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation; come home,… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
What I'm angry about, and I've gone on record saying this, is I think that financiers get away with murder. They realize… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
The United States of American business pays the second-highest business taxes in the world, 35 percent. Ireland pays 11 percent. Now, if… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The G20 was established as a forum to discuss, first and foremost, world economic issues. If we load it with... Of course,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Immigration. There's two plans on the table. Hillary and I believe in comprehensive immigration reform. Donald Trump believes in deportation nation. You've… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Neither faster nor slower than usual. As slowly as if you were doing your taxes (no offense to the” — Ben Michaelis Copy Share Image
I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon. — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
The A.M.T. is much reviled by tax experts across the political spectrum for its unintended consequences and fiendish complexity. — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image
I think tax reform is the single most important thing we can do in this country to unleash economic energy. It's going… — Dennis Muilenburg Copy Share Image
If you lose control of your debt and deficit, you get massive cuts in things such as health and education. You get… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
If inheritance tax were to be introduced for the monarch, it would mean slowly slicing away the royal assets. — Sarah Bradford Copy Share Image
The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what… — Mona Sahlin Copy Share Image
Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs — Robert Greenwald Copy Share Image
I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Getting a tax ID is absolutely free, and the entire process only takes a few minutes. Simply visit irs.gov, search for “EIN,”… — Mike Piper Copy Share Image
What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
