Unless you reduce the long-term spending burden, you cannot cut taxes in any lasting way, but can only shift the burden of… — Peter George Peterson Copy Share Image
Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes. — Roosh V Copy Share Image
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
The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I believe in a progressive tax structure that fairly distributes the costs of government in a way that those of us fortunate… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
If taxes are laid upon us without our having a legal representation where they are laid, we are reduced from the character… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Deficits and debt threaten the growing American economy and our national security over the long term. — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
If there is one thing that most economists agree about in the realm of tax policy, it is that it's best to… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
The war on driving includes calls for carbon and gas taxes, tens of billions of gas tax money diverted to inefficient and… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all… — Peter Brimelow Copy Share Image
The fact is that if you are lowering the rates the way you described, Governor, then it is not possible to come… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So what I have said with regard to Boeing and GE and other multinationals that pay zero taxes, you know what we're… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The fact that many private expenditures are mutually offsetting actually happens to constitute a remarkably good bit of fiscal news. Mutually offsetting… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
One such troubling provision is a tax increase to pay for the $635 billion included in the budget for health care 'reserve… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
The corporations who invest in lobbyists, it pays in terms of tax loopholes, tax subsidies, all the rest. It pays. Clearly, the… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
From an emotional standpoint it's very easy to say don't raise taxes, and no one wants to raise taxes. — Wayne Messam Copy Share Image
A budget matters to Americans who can't afford to see their taxes go up or lose the jobs that would be destroyed… — Susan Brooks Copy Share Image
The only way you get Americans to notice anything is to tax them or draft them or kill them. — John Irving Copy Share Image
The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales… — John Warren Kindt Copy Share Image
If I decide to run for office, I will release my tax returns. Absolutely. I would love to do that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair. — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
Obviously, you want to get the best deal possible for yourself, but teams just don't want to spend that money for fear… — Jason Terry Copy Share Image
Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I believe the only measure of government response shouldn't be how much we spend on a situation, but rather how well we… — Chris Chocola Copy Share Image
I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in… — Joe Manchin Copy Share Image
There is some talk of lowering (the income tax), and they will have to. People are not making enough to pay it. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I am part of a broad social movement. Ten years ago, it would have unimaginable for some random Dutch historian to go… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real… — Michael Steele Copy Share Image
We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year… — John Spratt Copy Share Image
For 40 years, everyone running for president has released their tax returns. You can go and see nearly, I think, 39, 40… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
You either make it illegal, in which case you support a huge underground economy or you tax it within the limits people… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden… — Bill Delahunt Copy Share Image
