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“For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?”

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Author:Rick Perry

“Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.”

“[Under Obama,] our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!”

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Author:Rick Perry

“In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“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.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.”

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Book:Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

“It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right.”

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Author:David Plouffe

“By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.”

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Author:John Podhoretz

“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.”

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Author:John Podhoretz

“Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.”

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Author:John Podhoretz

“The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.”

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Author:Paula Poundstone

“Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.”

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Author:Lucy Powell

“Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.”

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Author:Bonnie Raitt

“Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.”

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Book:Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

Source: Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

“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.”

“The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.”

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Author:Pat Robertson

“It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.”

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Author:John Buchanan Robinson

“You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.”

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Author:David Rockefeller

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.”

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Book:Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

“The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?”

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Author:Will Rogers

“If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.”

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Book:The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915

Source: The Papers of Will Rogers: From vaudeville to Broadway : September 1908-August 1915

“I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?”

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Author:Milton Berle

“And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely for those with annual income below $200,000.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“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.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to raise taxes on the American people.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.”

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Author:Andy Rooney

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