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“When people live in the full light of an open society, paying their taxes, abiding by the rules, that makes not only our country safer and more secure because people are not relegated to living in the shadows and not creating underground economies, it also is better for wages because the fact that people are working on the books in the open means that there's greater demand for labor and you don't have this submarket.”

People Mean Book Country Facts Light Economy Greater Demand Taxes Creating Shadow Labor Our Country Secure Wages Abiding

Author:Martin O'Malley

“I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly.”

People Reason House Given Greater Taxes Chosen Legislature

Book:The portable Thomas Jefferson

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.”

Shows Loss Greater Economic Taxes Increase Unemployment Recipes Recessions Tax Increases

Author:Pete Sessions

“At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.”

People Want Needs Greater Economic Taxes Tough Raises Safety Bills Tough Times Recessions Safety Net Medicaid Economic Recession

Author:James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

“John Marshall's warning that the power to tax is the power to destroy has taken on far greater meaning... more specifically, the power of the Internal Revenue Service is threatening to destroy the freedom of religion , guaranteed by the First Amendment. As part of that guarantee, Congress has granted tax exemptions for churches to avoid excessive interference in their religious activities.”

“The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.”

Wells Has Beens Philosophy Realizing Wealth Class Greater Failing Taxes Rate Saved Income Progressive Taxation Consumed Income Tax Progressive Taxation

Book:Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism

Source: Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism

“I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well defined from those below as income-tax payers are from the untaxed. The word genius was very probably invented by a man who had small claims on it himself; greater men would have understood better what to be a genius really was, and probably they would have come to see that the word could be applied to most people. Goethe said that perhaps only a genius is able to understand a genius.”

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Author:Otto Weininger

“If we do nothing, we are handing our children a ticking time bomb that will require they pay ever greater payroll taxes just as they are beginning their careers, starting their own families and staking their claim to the American Dream.”

Ifs Children Dream Pay Careers Greater Taxes Claims Our Children Starting Bombs American Dream Payroll Time Bomb Payroll Tax Ticking Time Ticking Time Bombs

Author:John McCain

“So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.”

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Author:Patrick J. Kennedy

“The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.”

Way Needs States Problem Light Faces Individual Community Answers Results Greater Higher Taxes Waste Spending Priorities Addresses Locality

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973