“Well, higher-income people don't have to pay taxes if they don't want to because they can move their money somewhere else, they can move their investments. They can stop investing. They can stop working. They don't need to work. They're higher-income people.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsWellsMovingValuesPayHigherTaxesInvestmentInvestingConservativeIncomeSomewhere ElseConservative Values Author:Rick Santorum
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” WorldSaidDeathCertainMoneyBusinessThis WorldTaxesConstitutionConservativeLibertarianCertaintyTaxationPoor RichardIncome TaxConstitution Of The United StatesUs ConstitutionTaxes FunnyRaising TaxesAmerican ConstitutionCertain DeathFederal TaxesHigh TaxesInheritance TaxCertainty Of DeathEstate Taxes Author:Benjamin Franklin
“We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.” LibertySocietyTaxesEconomicsConservativeLibertarianLazyLazinessPaying TaxesBeing Lazy Author:Milton Friedman
“I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.” ReasonLibertyCuttingCircumstancesTaxesEconomicsConservativeExcuseFavorsFinanceEconomistTaxationFree MarketGovernment SpendingFree Market Capitalism Author:Milton Friedman
“When Ralph Goodale tried to tax Income Trusts they showed us where they stood, they showed us their attitude towards raiding Seniors hard earned assets and a Conservative government will never allow either of these parties to get away with that.” HardGovernmentPartyAttitudeTaxesConservativeIncomeGet AwayAssetsSeniorRaiding Author:Stephen Harper
“For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.” ThinkingMeanValuesStrongPrinciplesFourKeysTaxesConservativeFocusedSpendingDefenseTraditionalAmerican Values Author:Jim Jordan
“Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.” Has BeensGovernmentPartyTaxesConservativeLabourTerritoryConservative Party Author:William Hague
“While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and balanced Vermont's budget - all traditionally conservative policies. Dean also received an 'A' rating from the National Rifle Association, which I think you can't get unless you've killed a guy.” ThinkingGuyCuttingPolicyNew YorkTaxesConservativeIncomeLabelsBudgetsWelfareOpponentsAssociationBalancedGovernorsNew York TimesRatingIncome TaxDeanRiflesVermontThrowback Author:Jon Stewart
“I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher's union.” StillsStatesTeacherCuttingTaxesToughUnionsDemocratConservativeBudgetsBalancedGovernorsJerseyPro LifeNew JerseyBalanced Budget Author:Chris Christie
“Ask a fellow if he favors organized prayer in the public schools. If he says 'No' he's a liberal. If he says 'Yes' he's a conservative. If he says, 'Public schools? The Constitution grants the government no power to run any mandatory tax-funded youth propaganda camps,' you have your hands on the wily libertarian.” IfsHandsGovernmentRunningSchoolAsksPrayerYouthTaxesConstitutionFellowsConservativeLibertarianFavorsPropagandaOrganizedGrantsCampsPublic School Author:Vin Suprynowicz
“People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren.” PeopleWantStillsI CanShowsAsksPositionHigherTaxesConservativeHeavyBudgetsBalancedGrandchildrenBalanced BudgetIndebtedness Author:Ben Stein
“Stoners just got a powerful new ally in the fight to legalize marijuana - conservative broadcaster Pat Robertson. He said it's time to 'you know, legalize it, tax it, and keep it away from Mel Gibson.'” KnowsSaidFightingPowerfulTaxesConservativeAlliesMarijuanaBroadcastersStonersLegalizing Marijuana Author:Craig Ferguson
“What the issue here is, you get rid of all the conservative orthodoxy about capital gains, marginal tax rate, supply side economics, you just throw all that out the window, limited government and you just embrace the sheer and raw politics of resentment that have been bubbling the whole time and that`s what you get. You get Donald Trump.” Has BeensWholeGovernmentSidesIssuesTrumpTaxesGainsEconomicsWindowEmbraceRateConservativeResentmentSheerOrthodoxyLimited GovernmentCapital GainsSupply Side Economics Author:Chris Hayes
“I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.” PeopleWantCuttingTaxesCapitalismForgottenConservativeCommunist Author:Boris Johnson
“During his campaign, [Donald] Trump promised the biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution in the 1980s.” CuttingRevolutionTrumpTaxesConservativeCampaignsTax Cuts Author:Kelly McEvers
“79 senators, including that great conservative Elizabeth Warren, said they didn't like the medical device tax, so we will go at that law - which in my view is the single worst piece of legislation passed in the last half century - in every way that we can.” WaySaidLastsLawViewsHalfPiecesWorstCenturyTaxesIncludingConservativeMedicalDevicesSenatorsLegislationGreat Conservative Author:Mitch McConnell
“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
“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
“Liberals in the US don't have great passions about Margaret Thatcher. Conservatives do. For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the US, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to reshape British society than Reagan did here. When I moved to Britain, the utilities were state-run. By the time I left, most of that was privatized. Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.” PassionPartyCuttingBrokenTaxesWorshipMovedConservativeRanWelfareLabourUtilityCrushedGreat Passion Author:Jon Weisman
“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.” IfsHumorGovernmentMovingPoliticalPoliticsPresidentFreedomViewsLibertyEconomyEconomicMilitaryPoliticianTaxesEconomicsConservativeLibertarianSocialismCommunismPresidentialWelfarePhrasesLiberalismPatrioticLibertarianismTaxationKeep MovingFreedom And LibertyIncome TaxFreedom LibertyProperty RightsLimited GovernmentBig GovernmentSubsidiesAmerican GovernmentFree GovernmentGovernment SpendingLimited FreedomPolitical WillUs PresidentPolitical ViewGreat LibertarianTax DayAmerican EconomyAmerica FreedomGreat Veterans DayRepublican GovernmentGovernment And SocietyTaxes FunnyGreat PoliticalEconomy And EconomicsStrong EconomyFuture Of AmericaBest PoliticalGreat ConservativeGovernment And BusinessGovernment WelfareRussian Economy Author:Ronald Reagan
“The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.” PeopleLittlesProblemGovernmentToo MuchTaxesConservativeDebtSpending Author:Ronald Reagan
“The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.” GovernmentWorkMilitaryTaxesConservativeDebtSpendingFederal GovernmentTaxationExaminationTaxpayersIncome TaxTax DayTaxes FunnyCivil ServiceFederal Taxes 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.” SocialHeardSecurityJudgingVictoryTaxesCourtConservativeReformSocial SecurityTax Reform Author:Pat Robertson