Close calls Quote by Mike McGavick

The blame for the maddening complications of the federal tax system goes to the people with the most money

— Nicholas von Hoffman

Taxes cause the most bad business decisions.

— James Cook

The payroll tax is affecting sales. It's causing sales declines.

— Fred DeLuca

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

— Christina Romer

The stagflation of the 1970s blessed us with damaging wage and price controls and the utterly counterintuitive supply-side notion - famously drawn on a…

— Steven Rattner

[The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.

— Norman Tebbit

There is a direct link between the federal tax cut of 2001 and state tax increases in 2003. When the federal government's mistakes force…

— Senator John Kerry

“Let’s look at the state of tax cheating under the current system. In 2001, the last year for which information is available, the IRS…

— Neal Boortz

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow…

— Sidney Blumenthal

We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the…

— John Sherman

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after…

— Mike Pence

Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it…

— Anonymous