“The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.” CertainTaxesBenefitsBurdenAlternativesMinimumTax Burden Author:Richard Neal
“Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.” IfsTermEconomyGrowingTaxesLowsBurdenSpendingChecksTemporaryDeficitManageableIfs AndTax Burden Author:Jim Nussle
“5: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1944: The G.I. Bill will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1965: Medicare will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1994: Health care will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!” CountryCareSocialBreakSecurityHugeCitizensTaxesBillsBurdenLibertarianOur CountryHealth CareSocial SecuritySmall BusinessMedicareTax Burden Author:Joseph Conrad
“We need to make sure that people can save all the money they spend on medical care by getting it back from their taxes, by reducing their tax burden.” PeopleNeedsCareTaxesBurdenMedicalReducingMedical CareTax Burden Author:Ron Paul
“We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.” StatesTaxesMassBurdenIncomeExpensesYieldThinkerLotteryPrudentSubsidiesTax Burden Author:Willard Van Orman Quine
“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
“Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing.” PeopleGovernmentSufferingPoorMiddleTaxesLowsWorkersBurdenSpendingIncomeInflationBorrowingDeceitfulGovernment SpendingTax Burden Author:Ron Paul
“I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will provide middle class payroll tax relief to get money in the pockets of workers who will spend it, not more tax giveaways for those at the top to stimulate the economy in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. A President who will index the minimum wage to inflation and raise it from a 30 year low, not increase the tax burden on the middle class and those struggling to join it.” ThinkingYearsRealJobsPresidentClassStruggleEconomyEconomicMiddleSecurityTaxesLowsIncreaseRaisesWorkersBurdenIslandsReliefMiddle ClassPocketsMinimumGood JobInflationMinimum WageGet MoneyPayrollEconomic SecurityPayroll TaxTax BurdenBermudaCayman Islands Author:John F. Kerry
“Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers.” PeopleKnowsLongHandsNumbersPayHalfTaxesBurdenIncomeFewerJoblessPullingGoing To WorkPercentagesHand In HandIncome TaxWagonsTax Burden Author:Fred Thompson
“Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called "permissiveness" but is really neglect.” IfsFeelsChildrenMadeProblemSchoolUsedParentWonderTeacherTaxesTestsPolicePopulationBurdenUsed To BeGuiltyContributionScoreNeglectPsychologistHardyTest ScoresTax BurdenPopulation Problem Author:C. Sommerville
“Any substantial tax reform would involve substantial redistributions of tax burdens and substantial changes in asset values, and you need some 'lubrication' (i.e., transition rules).” NeedsValuesTaxesBurdenReformAssetsTransitionTax ReformTax BurdenLubrication Author:Robert Reischauer
“States with high and rising tax burdens are more likely to suffer economic decline; those with low and falling tax burdens are more likely to enjoy strong economic growth.” StatesSufferingFallStrongEnjoyGrowthEconomicTaxesLowsBurdenRisingDeclineEconomic GrowthTax Burden Author:Lawrence Kudlow
“I'm conscious of competitive issues, but at the same time the recommendation they make is that we protect citizens by not adding to the overall tax burden of the province.” IssuesCitizensProtectTaxesConsciousBurdenProvincesRecommendationsTax Burden Author:Christy Clark
“In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses.” NeedsHardIndividualTermHard WorkTaxesBurdenSenateSmall BusinessShort TermTax Burden Author:Joni Ernst
“If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, don't tax it or reduce the tax burden.” IfsWantTaxesBurdenTax Burden Author:Ted Nugent
“And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.” PeopleThinkingWantCountryPresidentCuttingTaxesClimateBurdenTax Burden Author:Rick Perry
“He had a carrying, congressional sort of voice, the kind that sounded good saying things like Less of a tax burden on the middle class and Thank you for your donation and Honey, could you bring me my sweater with the duck on it?” KindVoiceClassMiddleTaxesBurdenMiddle ClassHoneyDucksSweatersDonationTax Burden Book:Forever Source: Forever
“All the Congress, all the accountants and tax lawyers, all the judges, and a convention of wizards all cannot tell for sure what the income tax law says.” LawLibertyJudgingTaxesEconomicsCongressLibertarianLawyerIncomeConventionsWizardsIncome TaxAccountantsTax Burden Author:Walter Wriston
“We will lower the tax burden on middle class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate.” ChildrenChoicesPayClassShareMiddleTaxesFairsAskingRateBurdenCreditSignificantIncomeMiddle ClassWealthyTaxpayersReductionIncome TaxFair ShareTax Burden Author:William J. Clinton
“Regarding the Economy & Taxation: America's most successful achievers do pay a higher share of the total tax burden. The top one percent income earners paid 18 percent of the total tax burden in 1981, and paid 25 percent in 1991. The bottom 50 percent of income earners paid only 8 percent of the total tax burden, and paid only 5 percent in 1991. History shows that tax cuts have always resulted in improved economic growth producing more tax revenue in the treasury.” ShowsAmericaSuccessGrowthPayEconomySuccessfulCuttingShareEconomicHigherTaxesPercentPaidHistoricalBottomBurdenIncomeTaxationRevenueEconomic GrowthTreasuryTax CutsAchieverTax Burden Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When you consider that a steelworker who's making $40,000 a year has virtually the same tax burden as someone who's making $400,000 a year, you see that there are inequities. This administration has used the tax code to accelerate wealth to the top. Most of the tax breaks have gone to people in the top bracket.” PeopleYearsJobsUsedWealthBreakGoneTaxesBurdenAdministrationCodeEmployeeAccelerateTax BreaksBracketsTax Burden Author:Dennis Kucinich
“The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.” IdeasPoliticsPartyClassSupportCuttingTaxesDemocraticBurdenReliefWarfareRhetoricDisputesDemocratic PartyTax CutsClass WarfareAllocationTax Burden Author:Dick Morris
“Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.” GrowthEconomicProduceTaxesBurdenEconomic GrowthReducingTax Burden Author:Bob Schaffer
“There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.” TaxesIncreaseBurdenTax Burden Author:Tony Abbott
“Uncertainty hurts business. It annoys individuals. Why keep the whole country, including business and individuals, in uncertainty over the extent of the tax burdens to be placed upon us? How many of those who voted for Calvin Coolidge imagined for a moment that would do nothing to bring about tax relief before 1926?.... But if the Administration persists in opposing a special session then it will inevitably be 1926 before action is taken.... Coolidge and Congress should ease our minds and grease our activities by reforming and reducing taxation as soon as feasible after March 4.” IfsShouldMindCountryWholeMomentsActionIndividualHurtTakenDoubtSpecialActivityTaxesIncludingCongressBurdenAdministrationUncertaintyEaseReliefMarchAnnoyingPersistTaxationSessionReducingOpposingGreaseTax Burden Author:B. C. Forbes
“The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.” PeopleShowsGovernmentWealthResultsFailingShareSecuritySourceTaxesPaidPressureMethodRateProfitBurdenIncomeRealizationProductiveYieldAvoidingTaxationRevenueTaxpayersTax Burden Author:Andrew Mellon
“In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.” NeedsGovernmentOrderGrowthEconomicTaxesBurdenSpendingEfficientEconomic GrowthSpursBrakeTax Burden Author:Ken Blackwell
“No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income.” NationsTaxesThirdsBurdenIncomeSurvivedTax Burden Author:Ronald Reagan
“Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.” CommunityLinesDependsBearsTaxesBurdenUnfairCompetitorsBricksMortarSales TaxTax BurdenBricks And Mortar Author:Bill Delahunt