“Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.” NeedsGovernmentIndividualGrowthCompanyFailingEconomicHigherTaxesAchievementInnovationEconomic GrowthIndividual Achievement Author:Reince Priebus
“coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves when we fail to make our discipline as clear and vibrant as we can to students - prospective scientists - and to the public who pay the taxes.” ShouldWritingHumansArtSoundGrowthPayClearFailingStudentsReaderDisciplineTaxesResearchScientistGravesProseConventionsSetbackExplosivesArt Of Writing Book:Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age Source: Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age
“What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction.... I wish to avoid [splitting our party]. I shall do all in my power to retain the corporation tax as it is now and also force a reduction of the [tariff] schedules. It is only when all other efforts fail that I'll resort to headlines and force the people into this fight.” PeopleFightingForceWishPartyEffortFailingAmountTaxesBillsCorporationsAnxiousSchedulesResortsHeadlinesReductionFrictionSplittingTariffs Author:William Howard Taft
“A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.” LosesWealthResultsFailingProduceTaxesBeatsPercentGainsInvestingFundDestroyingMarginsAnnualsVanguardIndex Funds Author:David F. Swensen
“The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.” WellsHas BeensPhilosophyRealizingWealthClassGreaterFailingTaxesRateSavedIncomeProgressiveTaxationConsumedIncome TaxProgressive Taxation Book:Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism Source: Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism
“Over the longer term, we need to work toward a pro-growth tax code that is fairer and simpler than what we have now. Anything that meets those criteria is going to be better than the failing and dysfunctional tax code we have today.” NeedsTodayGrowthTermFailingTaxesCodeCriteria Author:Joni Ernst
“We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to be known as Obamacare and the American people know that we need to make a change.” PeopleKnowsNeedsWarCareKnownEconomyFailingTaxesReformHealth CareRegulationCoalMaking ChangesObamacareHealth Care Reform Author:Mike Pence