“Americans spend about 6 billion hours a year collecting the data and filling out the forms. We spend $10 billion to H&R Block and other preparers. And on top of that, $2 billion in tax preparation software, which still takes hours of work. It's outrageous the burden we put on people, and guess what, you go to Europe, you go to Japan, it's 15 minutes and costs nothing.” PeopleHoursTaxesBurdenBlockPreparationSoftware Author:T.R. Reid
“If you ask any economist, they'll tell you all the mortgage interest deduction does is raise the price of the house. So a couple is out looking at the house, they say, "Oh, we love this house, but we couldn't make the monthly payment." And the realtor says, "Yeah, but you're going to get a tax break." So people pay more than they would otherwise. You take a loss even though you're making a gain.” PeopleHouseInterestLossBreakCoupleTaxesEconomistMortgage Author:T.R. Reid
“There's a tradeoff. Yeah, I lose the deduction that I really like, but my tax rate is going to go down, and I don't have to fill out that form anymore. It's much simpler, rates are lower, and that tradeoff has worked in many countries. Many countries have just cleaned house of all those exemptions in order to provide lower rates, and people buy it.” PeopleCountryHouseTaxesRate Author:T.R. Reid
“I really like the idea of consumption tax, and most countries have a pretty serious consumption tax. It's called a value-added tax or a goods and services tax ... It's a sales tax. It doesn't tax labor, it doesn't tax savings or investment - it taxes consumption.” CountrySeriousTaxesLaborInvestment Author:T.R. Reid
“It turns out a VAT - a value-added tax - is a very easy tax to collect and a very hard tax to evade. It's a really good idea. It was invented about 60 years ago in France, of course. Because they're so good at taxing. They had a business tax that was easy to evade, and the head of the French IRS invented this value-added tax, which is very hard to evade.” EasyTaxes Author:T.R. Reid
“We in Germany could, for example, lower taxes. And who is against that? The Social Democrats. We could also mobilize more private investments for public infrastructure projects liken the construction of highways. But the Social Democrats also reject this, even though they are at times similar to others abroad in their carping about the surplus. Incidentally, some of the consequences of the good economic situation are strong increases in wages, rising pensions and a strong labor market.” StrongSituationEconomicTaxesConsequenceLaborDemocratInvestmentConstructionPension Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“The problem is that everybody, everybody - Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, everybody - on the Republican side said they can't do tax reform until Obamacare is improved, they can't do it. I think a lot is known about Obamacare. I think that's why it's so consistently polls with people opposed to it. I think people know how much it's cost particularly to people that have entered the exchanges, but I think everybody does. there's not a person in the world in this country who is not aware of the oppressive, out of any scope of normalcy costs and prices associated with it.” PeopleThinkingWorldCountryProblemRepublicanTaxesConsistently Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If you have the desire, if you really had people with the burning desire to lower taxes, it would be done. We know the Democrats don't want to do it.” PeopleDoneDesireTaxesDemocrat Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Clinton Foundation has had to refile their taxes. And I remember when the first report came, the reaction everybody had. "Well, how come they get to do it again instead of being penalized for it? You file wrong, and you make a mistake, and they're gonna come at you and demand penalties and what. The Clintons made a mistake three times and they're allowed to refile?" And then we realize what the IRS did to Tea Party fundraising groups, denying them status.” RememberRealizingPartyMistakeTaxesClintonTeaRemember WhenMade A MistakeTea Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Tariffs are in the end taxes. And somebody has to pay that tax. I think one thing people are forgetting is that trade disputes are two-sided. When the United States imposes tariffs on a partner like Canada, there is always a possibility that Canada will say that's not fair and retaliate. And at that point, you have to ask the question, - which U.S. industry will suffer because the Canadians retaliated against it?” PeopleThinkingSufferingForgetPossibilityTaxesTrade Author:Greg Ip
“The Democrats are going to tax everybody through the roof. It is going to be focused on people that are wealthy because that's who they can tax. When you look at the stimulus plan - see, this doesn't make any sense, this is not working, it's not going to work, it's not intended to work the way we all were told it was gonna work. Health care is not going to get better. It's gonna get worse. It's gonna get rationed. The economy, the energy sector, nothing is being improved here. Everything's being wrecked.” PeopleCareEnergyEconomyTaxesDemocratFocusedHealth CareGet BetterWealthyRoofGoing To Work Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The amount of money coming into Washington is not a factor when the Democrats start spending it. Witness Obama. National debt doubled in eight years. It didn't matter what the tax revenue was. Didn't matter. He was gonna spend the money anyway.” TaxesDemocratWitness Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's no way you can grow an economy with that, with that many people not working and not paying taxes, you can have any kind of government solvency, you can't have any kind of growing economy, which is exactly what the Democrats want, by the way. Much better for the Democrats that you don't work. The more you work, the less dependent on them you are. If this sounds hideous, I'm sorry, it's true.” PeopleKindEconomyTaxesDemocratSorry Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrats have so corrupted our understanding of economics and productivity that lowering tax rates is now considered to be some kind of sop to the rich. I mean, it's just profound to me, the damage inflicted on this country by the Democrats in their pursuit of perpetual power.” KindMeanCountryUnderstandingRichTaxesProfoundDemocratRateProductivity Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The left does understand how raising taxes reduces economic activity. How about their desire for increasing cigarette taxes, soda taxes? What are they trying to do? Get you to buy less. They know. They know that higher taxes reduce activity. It's real simple: If you want more of an activity, lower taxes on it. If you want less of an activity, raise taxes. So if you want more jobs? It's very simple. You lower payroll taxes. If you don't want as many jobs, then you raise corporate taxes. It's that simple, folks.” TryingRealDesireSimpleEconomicTaxesCigarettePayroll Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Ladies and gentlemen, the Reagan tax cuts turned the deepest recession since the Great Depression into the largest 20-year economic boom in American history. The Reagan tax cuts of 1981 and '86. And the same thing can happen here again. Democrats just cannot let it.” CuttingEconomicTaxesDemocratGentlemanAmerican HistoryGreat DepressionLadies And Gentlemen Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There are tax increases throughout this Obamacare thing. It is just an expansion of government for the purposes of redistribution of wealth, and it's being said it's a health care bill to improve the lives of the American people and provide more access to the health care system for the American people who were denied it. It's all a sham. It's all a giant hoax just like this climate change thing is.” PeopleCarePurposeWealthTaxesClimate ChangeHealth Care Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If the tea party folks would go out there and get angry because they think their taxes are too high, for God's sake, a lot of citizens ought to get angry about the fact that they're being killed and our planet's being injured by what's happening on a daily basis by the way we provide our power and our fuel and the old practices that we have. That's something worth getting angry about.” ThinkingPartyTaxesTeaTea Party Author:John F. Kerry
“Donald Trump says he'll cut taxes and that will make the more productive members of our society more productive still and that he'd create more jobs.” CuttingTaxesProductive Author:Paul Solman
“There are all sorts of shades of gray when you're working on economic policy and tax policy and health care policy. There's no gray on this issue, to me. This is a gun lobby that is raging out of control, that doesn't even represent its own members.” CareEconomicPolicyTaxesGunRageHealth Care Author:Chris Murphy
“Smokers in our culture are hated and despised. Smokers, people look down on 'em, don't want anything to do with them. Smokers are really the modern incarnation of evil, and yet smokers, because of all the taxes they are paying, are funding most of the children's health care programs the federal government has.” PeopleCareCultureEvilModernTaxesProgramHealth CareHatedIncarnation Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The federal government, state governments will not do without that tax revenue from tobacco no matter what. I've always thought it was one of the most contradictory setups that we have, because everything said publicly about the product is intended to besmirch it, impugn it, and do the same thing to the people that use it. And yet here's the government scoring, I mean, you want to talk about obscene profits, the government doesn't do a damn thing but stick its hand in. The government taxes tobacco at every stage. It taxes tobacco when the farmer's thinking about planting it.” PeopleThinkingMeanTaxesContradictoryTobaccoObscene Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The state of New York's got this group of people called smokers, and they know they're addicted, and despite all the efforts to make 'em quit, they know they can't. So they just see a pile of money when they see these people. And they think because they're addicted, they can't not buy the product, so they just keep raising taxes and raising taxes, and they expect people just to come up with the money from somewhere and pay it.” PeopleThinkingEffortTaxesQuitting Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I thought you liberals cared about people, but here you're perfectly content to get them addicted to tobacco and make them pay taxes through the nose and continue to pay taxes through the nose and raise their taxes. And then you try to make 'em think you care about 'em by running PSAs telling them how they shouldn't smoke and how they should quit. You're exactly right. If they really cared, they would ban the product, but they can't, because the revenue from tobacco taxes - I'm not kidding you - funds children's health care programs, and a number of other things as well.” PeopleThinkingTryingCareRunningTaxesProgramQuittingHealth CareFundTobacco Author:Rush Limbaugh
“America is fundamentally conservative. People want a strong national defense. They want low taxes. They want individual freedoms. There's no doubt that the Republican party has got to rebuild. We've got to restructure. We've got to let new leaders come to the fore. But at the end of the day, those fundamental core principles are the ones that have made the nation great, not just the party affecting them.” PeopleIndividualStrongPartyLeaderDoubtRepublicanTaxesConservativeRepublican PartyIndividual Freedom Author:Liz Cheney
“I think what the Fed fears is that, if Donald Trump gets big tax cuts and big spending increases that take effect right now, when the economy is close to full employment, they will have to raise rates more rapidly.” ThinkingEconomyCuttingTaxesRate Author:David Wessel
“I believe, as a matter of principle, that the debt is a problem that must be addressed sooner rather than later. I also know that fundamental changes are necessary in the way Washington spends and taxes if we truly want a healthy economy.” BelieveProblemI BelieveEconomyHealthyTaxes Author:Mick Mulvaney
“I always say I'm not going to care this time, but I always do. Like, I did one this season called Tax Man with Martin Short, which was like, "Are you kidding me? Doing a pilot with Martin Short? Like, career high." And I just assumed, because it's Martin Short, like, "How are they not going to pick that up?" But they didn't.” MenCareTaxesX Men Author:Judy Greer
“I do not do my own taxes. It's too many forms. "Here are my 70,000 forms. I have no idea."I would be in jail.” Taxes Author:Zoe Kazan
“I don't think Democrats are ever going to get excited about cutting Medicaid to pay for tax cuts to wealthy people. I just don't think that's the direction we should be going in our country. The 1 percent's doing very well in America. They don't need more help. But Medicaid does.” PeopleThinkingCountryHelpingCuttingTaxesDemocratExcitedWealthy Author:Claire McCaskill
“Almost all of us have wondered at one point or another about the taxes we pay: Where does the money go?” Taxes Author:Judy Woodruff
“Almost three years ago, when I retired, my wife and I were talking about our philanthropic work and how does one help give opportunity, particularly to kids growing up in very disadvantaged situations.And my initial kind of sense was, the government does that primarily, and what we should mostly do is pay our taxes. My wife said, no, I don't think that's quite right for us. We need to do more. We can do better.” ThinkingGivingKindHelpingKidsOpportunitySituationGrowing UpWifeTaxesMy WifeRetiredPhilanthropic Author:Steve Ballmer
“We're very focused in on outcomes for government with respect to the amount of tax that goes in and the amount of expenditures that go out.” TaxesFocused Author:Steve Ballmer
“The Democrats would want to keep the taxes. And Republicans want to do away with taxes that are driving up the costs of premiums. So, I think it would be hard to see a scenario where Democrats would be willing to come to the table in good faith and actually work with us on a solution that meets those requirements.” ThinkingRepublicanTaxesSolutionsDemocratDrivingGood Faith Author:John Thune
“I think the reason that the Trump economic agenda is beneficial is, he is doing the right things. He wants to see growth, he wants to see to lower taxes, he wants to see this cash pile sitting outside the US return to the US. All of these things I think will be good for the US economy, and as I've said, if the US economy grows, the global economy benefits hugely.” ThinkingReasonGrowthEconomyEconomicTaxesBe GoodRight ThingDoing The Right ThingGlobal Economy Author:Martin Gilbert
“We really believe that we can bring about changes in the tax code that will make America more attractive for investment and job creation and business. But the president has also made it very clear that he wants to put - he wants to put new elements in the tax code that are going to have companies pay a price if they decide to take jobs out of the country and then sell their goods back into the United States.” BelieveCountryPresidentCreationTaxesInvestmentCodeAttractive Author:Mike Pence
“The president made it clear that he expected Congress, while they take action to repeal the most corrosive elements of Obamacare, the taxes, the mandates, things that are suppressing job creation and driving up the premiums for working families across the country.” CountryActionPresidentCreationTaxesDriving Author:Mike Pence
“My rule is when in doubt hire a professional. You could do it just this year and then you have direction to resume doing it yourself after the consultation. What you don't want is to do it wrong and be hit by a huge tax bill. Remember the old saying, "Don't be pennywise and pound foolish."” RememberDoubtTaxesFoolishOld SayingPennywise Author:Michelle Singletary
“We should balance the budget. If government programs are important enough, we need to pay for them with taxes or make cuts in lesser programs. We've lost that discipline entirely. It seems prudent to avoid the possibility that the people who own our debt will start to worry the U.S. won't pay. That would raise how much it would cost the U.S. to borrow, which in a national emergency, like a war or pandemic, could be critical.” PeopleImportantWarEnoughWorryCuttingPossibilityBalanceDisciplineTaxesProgram Author:Robert J. Samuelson
“Donald Trump is a businessman, not a career politician. He actually built a business. Those tax returns that were - that came out publicly this week show that he faced some pretty tough times 20 years ago. But like virtually every other business, including the New York Times not too long ago, he used what's called net operating loss. We have a tax code that actually is designed to encourage entrepreneurship in this country.” LongCountryLossWeekPoliticianTaxesToughEntrepreneurshipCodeBusinessmanTough Times Author:Mike Pence
“The only issue on taxes - Hillary Clinton is going to raise taxes, and Donald Trump and I are going to cut them.” CuttingTaxesClinton Author:Mike Pence
“Immigration. There's two plans on the table. Hillary and I believe in comprehensive immigration reform. Donald Trump believes in deportation nation. You've got to pick your choice. Hillary and I want a bipartisan reform that will put keeping families together as the top goal, second, that will help focus enforcement efforts on those who are violent, third, that will do more border control, and, fourth, that will provide a path to citizenship for those who work hard, pay taxes, play by the rules, and take criminal background record checks.” BelieveHelpingTogetherChoicesI BelieveGoalEffortPathFocusHard WorkTaxesViolentImmigrationCitizenshipFamily Together Author:Tim Kaine
“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
“We're trying our best to develop sort of strategies. We have already turned into law a labor reform law that will allow for more opportunities to ensue. We have also established a permits law that will facilitate permits in Puerto Rico. We are about to roll out a comprehensive tax reform that will enhance the base and will reduce the rates in Puerto Rico.” TryingOpportunityTaxesLaborStrategyRatePuerto Rico Author:Ricky Rossello
“For President Donald Trump, questions about transparency start with his taxes, and why he's breaking with tradition and not releasing his returns.” PresidentTaxesTraditionTransparency Author:John Yang
“Thousands of people marched in cities around the country to demand that Donald Trump release his taxes. He dismissed them with a tweet: "Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies. The election is over."” PeopleCountryTaxesElectionTweet Author:John Yang
“Donald Trump is the first president in more than 40 years not to make his tax returns public. The president says only reporters care about the issue.” CarePresidentTaxes Author:John Yang
“Conservatives believe in traditional values. Not because we want to impose our views on anyone, but because to abandon those values would be to ignore our history. Americans are not the most generous people on earth because our laws make us generous. People do not contribute to charity in this country in record amounts because we have a tax break from it. We do so because this nation has been shaped by Judeo-Christian principles that teach us that we have an obligation to care for one another.” PeopleBelieveCountryCareEarthValuesTeachBreakTaxesCharityObligationGenerousAbandon Author:Marco Rubio
“Donald Trump was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. I mean, no way in the world that Donald Trump is a champion of working people. He has hurt workers in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Florida, multiple bankruptcies, never showed his taxes. I don't know any good thing this guy's ever done. And yet, because he was able to throw hate and poison on Hillary Clinton, he was able to somehow prevail at least until the Electoral College. I think he was skilled at just sort of, like, keeping the attention on anyone but himself. He is the most outrageous person ever to win a presidential election.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindMeanDoneHateWinningHurtAttentionImagineCollegeTaxesElectionGood ThingsClintonPresidentialChampionMultipleBankruptcyPresidential Election Author:Keith Ellison
“Unless we are holding ourselves accountable day in, day out, not just when there's a crisis for folks who have power and influence and can hire lobbyists, but for the nurse, the teacher, the police officer, who, frankly, at the end of each month, they've got a little financial crisis going on. They're having to take out extra debt just to make their mortgage payments. We haven't been paying attention to them. And if you look at our tax policies in America, it's a classic example.” AttentionTeacherInfluencePolicyTaxesPoliceCrisisFinancialPay AttentionClassicExtrasNurseMortgagePolice OfficerFinancial Crisis Author:Barack Obama