“What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.” PeopleGovernmentJusticeSupportMilitaryTaxesConnectedPrioritiesCanadaMedicareJustice System Author:Peter MacKay
“The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and drugs. The one great difference is that by now the revolution has deprived the mass of consumers of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water. Air access remains the only necessity that the average user can still get for himself, and the revolution has imposed a heavy tax on that by way of pollution. Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.” WayKindStillsWaterDifferencesTechnologyEconomyAirMilitaryRevolutionDrugTaxesWeaponsMassIndependentRemainsTradeFinalsDefeatAverageHeavyAccessConsumersClothingsUsersPollutionShelterConsumerismConquestItemsDeprivedNoveltyFurThoroughOrnamentsOverconsumptionStaples Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating war in Afghanistan and maintaining over 850 military bases around the world, the administration has run up the national debt that Smith decried. By shifting the tax burden off property and off rent-seeking monopolies - above all, off the financial sector - this policy has raised America's cost of living and doing business, thereby undercutting its competitive power and running up larger and larger foreign debt.” WorldWarRunningAmericaTakenMilitaryPolicyCostTaxesBasesPropertyRaisedFinancialSaintSeekingBurdenDebtAround The WorldAdministrationEnterpriseAfghanistanMaintainingMonopolyShiftingStanceAnd OffFree EnterprisePatronNational DebtCost Of LivingEscalatingTax BurdenMilitary Bases Author:Michael Hudson
“God forbid that Americans earning, say, more than $1 million a year be asked to pony up a little more in taxes to support a larger military at a time when, we are told over and over, the country is in the middle of a war on terror. Millionaires can't be asked to sacrifice even just a little bit. No, they deserve to have their taxes cut while others fight and die.” YearsLittlesWarCountryDiesFightingBitsMillionsSupportCuttingSacrificeMiddleMilitaryTaxesLittle BitDeserveTerrorEarningMillionaireWar On TerrorTax CutsPonies Author:E. J. Dionne
“In every major war we have fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Americans have been asked to pay higher taxes - and nonessential programs have been cut - to support the military effort. Yet during this Iraq war, taxes have been lowered and domestic spending has climbed. In contrast to World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, for most Americans this conflict has entailed no economic sacrifice. The only people really sacrificing for this war are the troops and their families.” PeopleWorldHas BeensWarEffortPaySupportCuttingSacrificeEconomicCenturyMilitaryHigherConflictTaxesMajorsProgramIraqSpendingWar Of The WorldsVietnamWorld War IiContrastWorld War ITroops20th CenturyKoreanIraq WarKorean War Author:Robert Hormats
“The only one benefiting from this, the American taxpayer, almost half of our taxes, our income taxes, are going to the military and to these wars.” WarHalfMilitaryTaxesIncomeTaxpayersIncome Tax Author:Jill Stein
“Donald Trump talks us down. He makes disparaging comments about America. He calls our military a disaster. Well, it's not, but it might have been if everybody else had failed to pay taxes to support our brave men and women in uniform.” IfsMenWellsHas BeensMightAmericaPaySupportMilitaryTrumpTaxesMen And WomenBraveDisasterCommentUniformsMight Have BeenBrave ManDisparaging Author:Hillary Clinton
“Young men and women - young men and women signed up to serve in the military to fight terrorism. Hillary Clinton went to Washington to get funds to rebuild her city, and protect first responders but Donald Trump was fighting a very different fight. It was a fight to avoid paying taxes so that he wouldn't support the fight against terror.” MenFirstsDifferentYoungFightingCitiesSupportMilitaryTrumpProtectTaxesMen And WomenClintonTerrorTerrorismYoung ManFundPaying Taxes Author:Tim Kaine
“Donald Trump has broken his first promise [to release taxes]. Second he stood on this stage last week and when Hillary said you haven't been paying taxes, he said, that makes me smart. So it's smart not to pay for our military. It's smart not to pay for veterans, it's smart not to pay for teachers and I guess all of us who do pay for those things I guess we're stupid.” FirstsSaidLastsPayTeacherWeekStageMilitaryHavensStupidBrokenTrumpPromiseTaxesSmartReleaseVeteranPaying Taxes Author:Tim Kaine
“Donald Trump is going to lower taxes, Hillary Clinton's going to raise taxes. He's going to add to our military, she's going to decrease our military. He's going to support the police at a time in which we've had the biggest increase in crime in the last 41 years. He's going to take on radical Islamic terrorism.” YearsLastsSupportMilitaryCrimeTrumpTaxesIncreasePoliceRaisesAddClintonTerrorismRadicalIslamicDecreaseIslamic Terrorism Author:Rudy Giuliani
“People like Donald Trump, who paid zero in taxes, zero for our vets, zero for our military, zero for health and education, that is wrong.” PeopleMilitaryTrumpTaxesPaidZeroVetsHealth And Education Author:Hillary Clinton
“Instead of ending U.S. military aid to the 23rd wealthiest country to use for its consistent violations of international law and human rights, we see the Obama administration escalating the annual amount of aid, so that Israel will now start each year with almost $4 billion, with $3.8 billion a year of military aid coming from our tax money to support its military, without any restrictions on how it makes - how it uses that money, what weapons in the U.S. it's able to buy.” YearsHumansCountryUseAbleLawSupportRightsMilitaryAmountTaxesWeaponsInternationalHuman RightsIsraelAidsBillionsAdministrationConsistentRestrictionViolationAnnualsInternational LawEscalating Author:Phyllis Bennis
“I offer a better way for America with ideas that actually work, a reformed tax code that rewards free enterprise instead of just enterprising lobbyists. A reformed health care system that operates by free choice instead of by force and doesn't leave you answering to cold, clueless bureaucrats. A commitment to a renewed commitment to building a 21st Century military and giving our veterans the care that they were promised and the care that they earned.” WayGivingIdeasCareAmericaChoicesForceCenturyMilitaryBuildingColdOffersTaxesCommitmentRewardsHealth CareCodeEnterprise21st CenturyVeteranBetter WaysBureaucratsFree EnterpriseLobbyistsCluelessOur VeteransFree ChoiceHealth Care SystemEnterprising Author:Paul Ryan
“I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting the government off your back, lowering the taxes and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air. I said to my friend, I said, "What party is he?" My friend said, "He's a Republican." I said, "Then I am a Republican."” SaidGovernmentSpeakPartyTalkingHeardAirMilitaryListeningRepublicanTaxesMy FriendsBreathsEnterpriseStrengtheningFresh AirFree Enterprise Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“We know through the process of energy independence, our whole geopolitical footprint changes in terms of our national security and how we operate the American military. In addition to that we've got all these forward liabilities on these entitlement programs that, with the right tax and the energy policy, we can pay down and offset some of those liabilities.” EnergyTermSecurityMilitaryPolicyTaxesProgramIndependenceNational SecurityEntitlementFootprintLiability Author:Anthony Scaramucci
“So get this. On 9/11, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's hometown was attacked by the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United States. Young men and women - young men and women signed up to serve in the military to fight terrorism. Hillary Clinton went to Washington to get funds to rebuild her city and protect first responders, but Donald Trump was fighting a very different fight. It was a fight to avoid paying taxes so that he wouldn't support the fight against terror.” MenDifferentFightingSupportWorstMilitaryProtectTaxesMen And WomenClintonTerrorTerrorismTerroristFundHometown Author:Tim Kaine
“This Iraq war has been the most "privatized" war in America's history. It has seen the most extensive use of contractors. The contractors have increased the costs; but they have been necessary - the military simply could not have done it on their own. we would have had to increase the size of the military. But the George W. Bush Administration wanted America to believe that it could have a war, essentially for free, without raising taxes, without increasing the size of the armed forces.” BelieveWarDoneMilitaryTaxesIraq WarArmed ForcesContractor Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” IfsHumorGovernmentMovingPoliticalPoliticsPresidentFreedomViewsLibertyEconomyEconomicMilitaryPoliticianTaxesEconomicsConservativeLibertarianSocialismCommunismPresidentialWelfarePhrasesLiberalismPatrioticLibertarianismTaxationKeep MovingFreedom And LibertyIncome TaxFreedom LibertyProperty RightsLimited GovernmentBig GovernmentSubsidiesAmerican GovernmentFree GovernmentGovernment SpendingLimited FreedomPolitical WillUs PresidentPolitical ViewGreat LibertarianTax DayAmerican EconomyAmerica FreedomGreat Veterans DayRepublican GovernmentGovernment And SocietyTaxes FunnyGreat PoliticalEconomy And EconomicsStrong EconomyFuture Of AmericaBest PoliticalGreat ConservativeGovernment And BusinessGovernment WelfareRussian Economy Author:Ronald Reagan
“The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.” GovernmentWorkMilitaryTaxesConservativeDebtSpendingFederal GovernmentTaxationExaminationTaxpayersIncome TaxTax DayTaxes FunnyCivil ServiceFederal Taxes Author:Ronald Reagan