“We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans, and college for every young person who wants to go. In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future. In policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class. These are the policies I have fought for my entire career.” PeopleWantPersonsCareYoungEnergyGrowsClassCareersEconomyCuttingMiddlePolicyCollegeTaxesHealth CareLiftsMiddle ClassWagesTax CutsNew Energy Author:Barack Obama
“I think what grows the economy is when you get that tax credit that we put in place for your kids going to college. I think that grows the economy. I think what grows the economy is when we make sure small businesses are getting a tax credit for hiring veterans who fought for our country. That grows our economy.” ThinkingCountryKidsGrowsEconomyCollegeTaxesCreditOur CountryVeteranSmall BusinessHiringGoing To College Author:Barack Obama
“What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience. . . . Indeed, as is well known, acceptance of tax aid has led to the secularization of many church-related colleges and universities.” WellsStatesGovernmentChurchKnownSupportAcceptanceCollegeTaxesUniversityAncientAidsRelatedWell KnownAxiomsColleges And Universities Book:Church schools & public money: the politics of parochiaid Source: Church schools & public money: the politics of parochiaid
“We're not going to give tax breaks to billionaires and then cut back on the needs of our elderly or poor or kids or education. We're not going to privatize Social Security - in fact, we're going to strengthen it. We're going to provide quality education for every kid in America, from preschool through college. We have to take on these corporate leaders who are selling out the American people, whose allegiance is now much more to China than it is to the United States. If we have the courage to take these people on, I think we can overwhelm George W. Bush and his friends.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsGivingStatesFactsKidsAmericaSocialPoorUnitedQualityLeaderBreakUnited StatesCuttingSecurityCollegeTaxesChinaSellingCorporateSocial SecurityElderlyAllegianceBillionaireQuality EducationSelling OutTax BreaksPreschool Author:Bernie Sanders
“I believe capital gains, for the most part, should be taxed the same way we tax income from hard work, sweat, and toil. And if we do those things, we can be a country that actually can afford debt-free college again.” IfsWayShouldBelieveCountryHardI BelieveCollegeHard WorkTaxesGainsDebtIncomeSweatToilCapital GainsDebt Free Author:Hillary Clinton
“How do we say, why do you keep voting for people who are giving more tax breaks to billionaires, who are going to send your jobs abroad, not going to let you form a union, not going to allow your kids to go to college? Why do you keep voting for these guys?” PeopleGivingKidsJobsFormGuyBreakCollegeTaxesUnionsVotingBillionaireTax Breaks Author:Bernie Sanders
“I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.” SchoolLawCollegeTaxesProgramBackgroundsModestLaw School Author:Michele Bachmann
“Now all of the ideas that I'm talking about, they are not radical ideas. Making public colleges and universities tuition free, that exists in countries all over the world, used to exist in the United States. Rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, and creating 13 million jobs by doing away with tax loopholes that large corporations now enjoy by putting their money into the Cayman Islands and other tax havens. That is not a radical idea.” WorldIdeasCountryStatesJobsUsedEnjoyUnitedTalkingMillionsUnited StatesHavensCollegeTaxesCreatingUniversityRadicalCorporationsIslandsInfrastructureRebuildingCrumblingTuitionLoopholesColleges And UniversitiesRadical IdeasCayman IslandsCrumbling Infrastructure Author:Bernie Sanders
“The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to stand up for their rights, dealing with student debt, which I got to tell you is just crushing people all over this country, making public colleges and universities tuition free, those are the ideas we are bringing out, demanding the wealthy and large corporations start paying their fair share of taxes. This is what younger people, working class people want. That is the future of the Democratic Party.” PeopleWantIdeasCountryYoungPoliticalProcessPartyClassRightsShareStudentsCollegeTaxesFairsDemocraticUniversityDebtCorporationsCrushWealthyWorking ClassDemocratic PartyInvolvingTuitionFair ShareColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“What would be wrong with letting a kid go pro, and if it doesn't work out he can come back to college? What's the harm in that? The reason is the word "amateurism." The NCAA has to protect colleges' tax exemption.” IfsReasonWould BeKidsCollegeProtectTaxesWork OutHarmExemptionNcaaBack To College Author:Sonny Vaccaro
“People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries, of billionaires not paying any federal income taxes and of not being able to afford a college education for their kids - all while the very rich become much richer.” PeopleCountryKidsAbleJobsHoursRichSeeingCollegeTaxesLowsTiredChinaIncomeDecentWagesBillionaireIncome TaxCollege EducationTired Of Working Author:Bernie Sanders
“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
“The country doesn't owe you anything because you're an American or especially because you have a college degree. Now, if you think... If you are a college student and you've got a degree and you're out there and you can't find a job and if you think - if you agree with Obama that the Bush tax cuts ought to sunset - $700 billion ought to be taken out of the private sector and sent to Obama, then you deserve to be out of work for the rest of your life because that $700 billion taken out of the private sector could be used to grow businesses and hire people.” PeopleThinkingCountryTakenCuttingStudentsCollegeTaxesDeserveAgreeSunsetCollege StudentsCollege Degree Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.” IfsMeanKidsCompanyBreakCuttingCollegeTaxesDollarsOilBillionsCorporateGasOwnersMillionaireScholarshipJetBillionaireTax BreaksOil And Gas Author:Barack Obama