“The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.” PeopleAmericaGivenTermGoneFourCuttingTaxesCongressScalesIncomeReliefTax Cuts Author:Richard Neal
“If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.” IfsWantGivingYearsYoungMotherChancePayFourTaxesPrisonHorribleFour YearsContributors Author:Kevin O'Leary
“If you bring [tax] rates down, it makes it easier for small business to keep more of their capital and hire people. And for me, this is about jobs. I want to get America's economy going again. Fifty-four percent of America's workers work in businesses that are taxed as individuals. So when you bring those rates down, those small businesses are able to keep more money and hire more people.” PeopleIfsWantAbleJobsAmericaIndividualEconomyFourEasierTaxesPercentWorkersRateFiftyMore MoneySmall Business Author:Mitt Romney
“The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.” MenYearsEnoughLastsPayQualityFourWeekTvsCivilizationTaxesEssentialsOfficeLowsPaidPlantSevenTerrorCustomsFarmersSovietRegimesCollapseCommerceLast YearSecretaryCurtainsSalaryCornWheatPropsHigh QualityBribeAcresSubsidiesMedianFederal Taxes Author:Alan Bock
“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
“A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.” MeanJobsGrowthFourTaxesPercentAspectStrategyCodeKillersRegulationWagesObamacareConvoluted Author:Jeb Bush
“Start by scrapping the tax code. Don't fiddle with it. Junk it. Throw it out. Bury it. Replace it with a pro-growth, pro-family tax cut that lowers tax rates to 17% across the board and expands exemptions for individuals and children so that a family of four would pay no taxes on the first $36,000 of income.” FirstsChildrenIndividualGrowthPayFamilyFourCuttingTaxesRateImprovementIncomeCodeBoardsJunkTax CutsFiddleExemption Author:Steve Forbes
“If I get married I get a tax break, if I have a kid I get a tax break, if I get a mortgage I get a tax break. I don't have any kids and I drive a hybrid, I think I should get a tax break. I'm trying to pay off my apartment so I have something tangible. I actually figured out if I paid off my place my reward would be that I would pay an extra four grand a year in taxes.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingYearsWould BeKidsPayBreakFourTaxesMarriedPaidRewardsExtrasApartmentTangibleMortgageHybridTax BreaksPaid Off Author:Bill Burr
“You hear a lot of jokes every once in a while about 'Silent Cal Coolidge.' The joke is on the people who make the jokes. Look at his record. He cut the taxes four times. We had probably the greatest growth and prosperity that we've ever known. I have taken heed of that because if he did that by doing nothing, maybe that's the answer.” PeopleIfsLooksGrowthAnswersKnownTakenRecordsFourCuttingTaxesJokesSilentProsperityDoing NothingHeed Author:Ronald Reagan
“In the Iowa senate, I helped pass the largest tax cut in state history - returning over four billion dollars in savings and putting more money back in the pockets of hard-working Iowa families.” HardStatesFourCuttingHard WorkTaxesDollarsBillionsSavingPocketsSenateMore MoneySavingsTax CutsIowa Author:Joni Ernst
“I'm pleased that I've balanced budgets. I was on the world of business for 25 years. If you didn't balance your budget, you went out of business. I went into the Olympics that was out of balance, and we got it on balance, and made a success there. I had the chance to be governor of a state. Four years in a row, Democrats and Republicans came together to balance the budget. We cut taxes 19 times and balanced our budget.” IfsWorldYearsMadeStatesTogetherChanceFourCuttingBalanceRepublicanTaxesDemocratBudgetsFour YearsBalancedGovernorsOlympicsBalanced Budget Author:Mitt Romney
“Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.” YearsMadePoorFourMiddlePolicyTaxesYears AgoIncomeBudgetsFour YearsPledge Author:Bob Beauprez