“Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.” WantNeedsChoicesIndividualFitTaxesDeserveInnovationSizeIdeologyEnterpriseBroadsFree EnterpriseOne Size Fits All Author:Fred Upton
“Our party [Republicans] has been focused on big business too long. I came through small business. I understand how hard it is to start a small business. That's why everything I'll do is designed to help small businesses grow and add jobs. I want to keep their taxes down on small business. I want regulators to see their job as encouraging small enterprise, not crushing it.” WantLongHas BeensHardHelpingBigsJobsGrowsPartyRepublicanTaxesAddFocusedCrushEnterpriseSmall BusinessBig BusinessRegulators Author:Mitt Romney
“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
“The left's obsession with corporations as a spawn of evil is pathological paranoia. A corporation is just one form of organizing a private business enterprise for purposes of limiting personal liability, issuing stock, filing financial reports and paying taxes. Other forms include partnerships and sole proprietorships. Are they less evil? You buy your groceries from corporations, your cars, newspapers, cellphones, clothing and exercise equipment. Your parents and children work for corporations. Are they evil?” ChildrenFormPurposeEvilLeftParentCarExerciseTaxesFinancialNewspapersObsessionCorporationsJust OneEnterpriseReportsClothingsSolePartnershipEquipmentGroceriesParanoiaLiabilityChildren And ParentsSpawnFilingCellphonePaying Taxes Author:Mike Rosen
“We very much hope that as we get growth that we can reduce the burden of taxation, that we can reduce income tax and increase the amount of genuine free enterprise and business enterprise... This is going... toward the restoration of the personal responsibility, the independence, with every man a property owner, every man a capitalist.” MenWisdomPoliticsGrowthResponsibilityEconomyAmountTaxesIncreaseIndependencePropertyBurdenEvery ManGenuineIncomeLiberalismEnterpriseOwnersCapitalistTaxationRestorationPersonal ResponsibilityIncome TaxFree Enterprise Author:Margaret Thatcher
“In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through a process of subsidies, supports, and deficit spending and an increasingly inequitable tax system.” GovernmentPoliticalOpportunityProcessSupportTaxesGainsSpendingEnterpriseExpensesNurtureDeficitAccumulationSubsidiesTax SystemDeficit Spending Author:Michael Parenti
“We must recognize that the goal of a cleaner environment will not be achieved by rhetoric or moral dedication alone. It will not be cheap or easy and the costs will have to be borne by each citizen, consumer and taxpayer. How clean is clean enough can only be answered in terms of how much we are willing to pay and how soon we seek success... It is simplistic to seek ecological perfection at the cost of bankrupting the very tax-paying enterprises which must pay for the social advances we seek.” EnoughSocialEasyGoalTermPayMoralEnvironmentWillingCitizensCostTaxesPerfectionCleanEnvironmentalConsumersEnterpriseDedicationPollutionRhetoricTaxpayersEcologicalCleaners Author:Richard M. Nixon
“Capitalism is supposedly free enterprise. Supposedly about the free individual. But capitalism itself is so massive that the guy on the street gets caught in paying rent, taxes, and he doesn't own himself at all.” GuyIndividualStreetsTaxesCapitalismCaughtEnterpriseMassiveFree EnterprisePaying Rent Author:Frank Capra
“The oil industry is hardly free to operate as efficiently as it could or to be as responsive to consumer demands as it would like. It has become, in essence, a quasi-state-run enterprise, because it cannot drill, transport, refine, and store fuel without receiving government permission, complying with government regulations, and paying taxes at every level or production.” StatesGovernmentRunningLevelsIndustryDemandTaxesEssenceProductionsOilStoresConsumersFuelEnterpriseReceivingRegulationPermissionTransportDrillsGovernment RegulationPaying TaxesOil IndustryComplying Book:Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto Source: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
“I offer a better way for America with ideas that actually work, a reformed tax code that rewards free enterprise instead of just enterprising lobbyists. A reformed health care system that operates by free choice instead of by force and doesn't leave you answering to cold, clueless bureaucrats. A commitment to a renewed commitment to building a 21st Century military and giving our veterans the care that they were promised and the care that they earned.” WayGivingIdeasCareAmericaChoicesForceCenturyMilitaryBuildingColdOffersTaxesCommitmentRewardsHealth CareCodeEnterprise21st CenturyVeteranBetter WaysBureaucratsFree EnterpriseLobbyistsCluelessOur VeteransFree ChoiceHealth Care SystemEnterprising Author:Paul Ryan
“I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting the government off your back, lowering the taxes and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air. I said to my friend, I said, "What party is he?" My friend said, "He's a Republican." I said, "Then I am a Republican."” SaidGovernmentSpeakPartyTalkingHeardAirMilitaryListeningRepublicanTaxesMy FriendsBreathsEnterpriseStrengtheningFresh AirFree Enterprise Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Income is sucked upward to the creditors, who then foreclose on the assets of debtors. This shrinks tax revenue, forcing public budgets into deficit. And when governments are indebted, they becomemore subject to pressure to privatization of public enterprise.” TaxesEnterprise Author:Michael Hudson