Policymakers should take note that tax proposals are always veiled in good intentions, but many times the negative consequences remain unseen. — Michelle Steel Copy Share Image
One of the cruellest things of all is to have a huge deficit in this country, meaning that everyone's children will be… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich. — Andrew Mellon Copy Share Image
We have, during his regime, during President Obama's regime, we've doubled our national debt. We're up to $20 trillion. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times. — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
As a captain of industry, I would prefer more tax breaks to help people buy houses, but as a citizen, I realize… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
I made a promise to you and the people of our state when I was running for governor: I promised I would… — Tony Evers Copy Share Image
There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: "This nation cannot survive as long… — M. Stanton Evans Copy Share Image
The only way major change in environmental policy is going to happen, the only way, is if there is a very strong,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
In high-tax New York, in high-tax California, the governors of those states are constantly offering tax breaks, tax exemptions to any number… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The message of David Duke, is this, basically: Big government, anti-big government, get out of my pocketbook, cut my taxes, put welfare… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, I am a proud Republican, and I want to support my party. I am a firm believer in… — David Schweikert Copy Share Image
Give us back our tax dollars that we pay for police who do not serve nor protect. Then maybe we can educate… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The biggest problem confronting the country is our excessive spending. If we're not going to deal with it now, when are we… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
I know of no power, indeed, of which a free people ought to be more jealous, than of that of levying taxes… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven… — Richard Neal Copy Share Image
You can't use the tax code as a penal system because you don't like what a country is doing. — John Layfield Copy Share Image
I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The reality is (Clinton's) so-called tax cut is basically giving money to people who largely don't pay taxes, so that it's really… — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
Almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share. — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive. — Joseph McKenna Copy Share Image
In other words, governments do not collect taxes to provide services, they provide services as an excuse to collect taxes. — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let's give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
[American tax laws] are constantly changing as our elected representatives seek new ways to ensure that whatever tax advice we receive is… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Simplifying and reducing the cost to develop in areas the state has designated for growth is the best way to build vibrant… — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling. — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Warren Buffett's company reportedly owes the IRS a billion dollars in back taxes. When he said he wasn't paying enough taxes, he… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and… — Cleta Mitchell Copy Share Image
“it took two full years for final congressional action on the Tax Reform Act of 1986 after the Treasury had already done… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
Andrea Leadsom also denies any tax avoidance, says she 'shopped around' for a good deal and it was from a British bank… — Laura Kuenssberg Copy Share Image
Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington,… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image