Family Quote by Jane Mayer

“One attractive solution for enormously wealthy families like the Scaifes and the Kochs was to donate to their own private philanthropic foundations. By doing…

— Jane Mayer

“The Kochs were not alone. As they sought ways to steer American politics hard to the right without having to win the popular vote,…

— Jane Mayer

“the decrease in the top marginal income tax rate led to an explosion of very high incomes, which then increased the political influence of…

— Thomas Piketty

“The founders realized that a gigantic government would require increasingly large amounts of resources from the people in the form of taxes, and that…

— Ben Carson

“While those attracted to the Kochs’ meetings were uniformly conservative, they were not the predictable cartoon villains of conspiracy theories but spanned a wide…

— Jane Mayer

“They made political contributions to party committees and candidates, such as Dole. Their business made contributions through its political action committee and exerted influence…

— Jane Mayer

The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor,…

— Paul Craig Roberts

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the…

— Rick Larsen

Over the years, the tax code has become a vehicle for political favoritism and social engineering.

— Bill Bradley

The Koch brothers tend to give to right-leaning and libertarian causes. Koch money was instrumental, for example, in founding the Cato Institute and the…

— Donald Luskin

“No longer would other nations, other economies, be taking business and jobs away from the U.S. economy by enacting their own valuable tax reform…

— Neal Boortz

The Founding Fathers realized that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," which is why they did not give the Federal government…

— Ron Paul