All this talk of using tax policy to 'assess social costs'...what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to… — David Brin Copy Share Image
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand. — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The government itself cannot create jobs. Jobs are created by business people and entrepreneurs. — Tom Marino Copy Share Image
In reality, finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States. — David Leonhardt Copy Share Image
If you've been frugal during your life and tried to save, you're penalised by the tax system. You pay tax on your… — Geoff Capes Copy Share Image
Cutting and simplifying taxes is the right thing to do for all Americans, and it is certainly right for Alabama. — Kay Ivey Copy Share Image
Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to… — Ernest Hollings Copy Share Image
The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax evasion. — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
I believe, as a matter of principle, that the debt is a problem that must be addressed sooner rather than later. I… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?'… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
The debt austerity would not be problems if we had technological progress. If you doubled the debt in the U.S., and the… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
Tax reform shouldn't add one penny to our deficit or to the tax bills of middle-class Americans. — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
Maybe you shouldn't have done your own taxes considering your inability to calculate a restaurant tip. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of… — Melissa Bean Copy Share Image
Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Cutting the fiscal deficit is not popular. That is the experience of all governments in all countries. Expenditure cuts hurt certain vested… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Every tax cut I call for is targeted, it's responsible and it is paid for within my balanced budget plan. My tax… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, I am opposed to tax dollars being used for – well, damn near anything, barring mail delivery, law… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy… — Jim Bridenstine Copy Share Image
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to… — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
I hear the complaining about tax increases and benefit cuts. But I don't hear a lot of alternative solutions. What do you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look at what happened in the 1990s: when they balanced the federal budget, it was through growth in the economy and controlling… — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005. — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
Denmark is charging a fat food tax on cheese, meat, and oil. Here, we call that the Denny's Grand Slam breakfast. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
I keep telling them, if they added a 2% stupidity tax, the national debt wud be paid off in a matter of weeks :) — Don Raj Copy Share Image
A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich — Chamfort Copy Share Image
I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne. — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image