“Our tax plan by the way shows the vast, vast majority of Americans, upwards of 96 percent can fill out their taxes on a postcard.” WayShowsPlansTaxesPercentMajorityPostcards Author:Paul Ryan
“We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It's a captured system.” WantThreeRichPoliticianTaxesPercentBudgetsSeventiesCapturedDebacles Author:Bill Ayers
“If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income tax rate of 100 percent would mean that taxpayers would gain nothing from working harder or investing more. In contrast, a higher top marginal rate on consumption would actually encourage savings and investment. A top marginal consumption tax rate of 100 percent would simply mean that if a wealthy family spent an extra dollar, it would also owe an additional dollar of tax.” IfsMeanEconomicHigherActivityLimitsTaxesPercentGainsHarderDollarsInvestmentRateInvestingIncomeSavingExtrasProductiveWealthyContrastConsumptionTaxpayersSavingsDiscouragingIncome TaxSavings And Investment Author:Robert H. Frank
“I'd make an educated guess that 20 to 25 percent of the taxable property in the U.S. is Church-owned.In a recent book, Church Wealth and Business Income, it was estimated that this property -all of it tax-exempt -is worth upwards of 80 billion dollars. I know that's a fantastic, unbelievable figure, but there's every reason to believe that it's on the conservative side; and this amount is increasing yearly at a geometric rate.” KnowsBelieveBookReasonSidesChurchWealthFiguresAmountTaxesPercentDollarsPropertyRateConservativeBillionsIncomeEducatedFantasticUnbelievableGeometric Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I know that I pay 48 percent of my income to taxes. You know, I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't going just to export war. If it was actually going to help the people of the United States, I would gladly pay more.” PeopleIfsKnowsMindWarStatesHelpingUnitedPayUnited StatesTaxesPercentIncome Author:Roseanne Barr
“Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.” WantStatesIndividualTaxesPercentRateLocalsCorporateDamageSmall Business Author:Grover Norquist
“I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.” ShouldLastsClassEconomyCuttingMiddleTaxesPercentRaisesMiddle ClassTax Cuts Author:Barack Obama
“What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.” CountryGovernmentTaxesPercentPaidMajorityOilAcceptedProducersFairness Author:Olusegun Obasanjo
“As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.” IdeasMatterNationsGroupsEconomicPolicyPeriodsTaxesPercentProductiveRevenueWretchedDoldrums Author:John Podhoretz
“I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.” WantGovernmentTurnsLevelsEconomyAmountTaxesPercentRaisesDemocratDrivenFederal GovernmentCapsPrivate Sector Author:Mitt Romney
“Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.” KnowsYearsKindPlansEconomicTaxesPercentConsequenceIncludingDebtSpendingBoostNational DebtFederal Spending Author:Karl Rove
“The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.” WarHalfOur LivesGroupsTaxesPercentIraqRelativeUsualIraq WarSmall GroupsOne Half Author:Bob Schieffer
“In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.” StillsIdeasEconomyMiddleTaxesPercentSpendingDisasterClimbingHikingUnemploymentReducingPrescriptionsRecessionsRaising Taxes Author:Joe Biden