Big deal Quote by Barack Obama

“There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensitive to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent…

— Timothy Egan

“high taxation was not regarded in these years as an affront. On the contrary, steep rates of progressive income tax were seen as a…

— Tony Judt

Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he…

— Will Rogers

“Lower taxes didn’t mean people paid less; it meant taxes weren’t raised.”

— Chris Dietzel

“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it…

— Thomas Sowell

You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the…

— Ronald Reagan

“Mrs. Roosevelt felt, was the fault of society; “a civilization which does not provide young people with a way to earn a living is…

— Robert A. Caro

Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes brought in…

— Amity Shlaes

“Roosevelt had defined the public interest in the previously private struggle between labor and capital.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

— John Barrasso

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a…

— John Stuart Mill

“Just what do we tax under our current system? Work, that’s what. Hard work and productivity. The harder you work, the more you achieve.…

— Neal Boortz