“The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas tax being increased. We couldn't get them to accept being able to move forward. Since President Obama's been in office, there has been, to be charitable, a lack of enthusiasm for raising the gas tax.” Has BeensTwoAbleMovingPresidentAcceptingTaxesOfficeBlueMoving ForwardFinanceEnthusiasmAdministrationGasPresident ObamaMore MoneyInfrastructureCharitableRibbons Author:Ray LaHood
“We owe more money than any Nation in the World, and we are LOWERING TAXES. When is the time to pay off a debt if it is not when you are doing well? You let a Politician return home from Washington and announce, 'Boys we lowered your taxes. We had to borrow the money to do it, but we did it.' Say, they would elect him for life.” IfsWorldWellsHomeNationsPayBoysReturnPoliticianTaxesDebtMore Money Author:Will Rogers
“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
“We need to simplify our tax code. We need to make sure that it's not too cumbersome for people to be able to comply with. And that they don't end up spending more money trying to file their taxes than they do actually paying in.” PeopleNeedsTryingEndsAbleTaxesSpendingCodeMore MoneyFilesSimplify Author:Kristi Noem
“There are no checks and balances if the gov is wrong. If a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt, the losses are cut; if he bets wrong, he loses; if the gov bets wrong, they just get bigger, they just appropriate more money. It's a bottomless pit, because they either get it from the tax payers or run it off a printing press.” IfsRunningLosesLossMistakeCuttingBalanceTaxesBiggerPressesEntrepreneurChecksAppropriateMore MoneyPitsPrintingPrinting Press Author:Peter Schiff
“President Obama unveiled a $4 trillion budget for 2016 that would increase taxes on the wealthy and spend more money on education. He also made a snowball and put it in the oven, just to see which would last longer, his budget or the snowball.” MadeLastsPresidentTaxesIncreaseBudgetsWealthyPresident ObamaMore MoneyOvensSnowball Author:Jimmy Fallon
“The president wants more tax money in Washington. I want more money left in the communities, particularly poor communities, particularly communities that have high unemployment.” WantLeftPresidentCommunityPoorTaxesMore MoneyUnemployment Author:Rand Paul
“While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.” NeedsSeemsLeftProtectTaxesProgramFocusedSpendingReformPreservesObsessedMore MoneyRestraintEntitlementMedicareOverlookedMedicaid Author:Fred Upton
“I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.” GivingJobsOpportunityGrowsEnvironmentTaxesCreatingInvestmentMore MoneyImprovingPennsylvaniaCreating JobsCapital Investment Author:Ed Rendell
“Every year I write a tax advice column and I used to always make fun of that. One year, one of my favorite IRS commissioners, I think his name was Roscoe somebody, wrote that one of the most often-asked questions by taxpayers was, "How can I contribute more?" Well, I tell ya, ol' Roscoe's really been doing situps under parked cars again. I've heard a lot of people ask a lot of questions about taxes, but I never heard anybody say, "How can I, the ordinary person, send more money for no reason?"” PeopleThinkingWritingYearsWellsPersonsReasonUsedAsksNamesFunHeardAdviceCarTaxesOrdinaryMy FavoriteNo ReasonMore MoneyTaxpayersColumnsIrsOrdinary PersonYear OneCommissioners Author:Dave Barry
“Then there was communism's weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn't take all the money away from all the people since all the people don't have money. We should take all the money away from only the people who make money. Then, when we run out of that, we could take more money from the people who...hey, wait! Where'd you people go? What do you mean you're "tax exiles in Monaco?"” PeopleShouldMeanRunningWaitingTaxesWeakSocialismHeyCommunismTeaMaking MoneyMore MoneyExileMonaco Book:The C.E.O. of the Sofa Source: The C.E.O. of the Sofa
“We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsCountryGrowthPoorEconomicPolicyTaxesAddEnvironmentalPocketsMore MoneyCarbonSlow DownConsensusEconomic GrowthMinusEnvironmental PolicyCarbon Tax Author:Christy Clark
“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
“If you behave like a good citizen, and you upgrade and improve your property, your reward will be the government will take more money from you. So using that analogy, you should let your house become the shithole on the block and they'll reduce your taxes and you'll pay less. Be a bad citizen with your neighbors, right? You'll save money then.” IfsShouldGovernmentHousePayCitizensTaxesPropertyRewardsNeighborBlockBehaveMore MoneySaving MoneyAnalogiesGood Citizen Author:Jesse Ventura
“If the economy grows enough, fast enough, the tech system should be modernized so that the tax revenues rise fast enough also, and we should put more money in education.” IfsShouldEnoughGrowsEconomyTaxesMore MoneyRevenue Author:Manmohan Singh
“I just don't think it's good public policy to tax fuel. It's kind of silly. It stops people from traveling and actually costs the economy more money than what you gain in the taxes.” PeopleThinkingKindEconomyPolicyCostTaxesGainsSillyFuelMore MoneyPublic Policy Author:David Neeleman
“I am on record as saying that we need to put more money into the Social Security Trust Fund. That's part of my commitment to raise taxes on the wealthy.” NeedsSocialRecordsSecurityTaxesCommitmentRaisesFundWealthyMore MoneySocial SecurityTrust Funds Author:Hillary Clinton
“The reality is the most important thing that can be done are these permanent changes like to the tax code, reduction of government spending. These are the things that pop up in economy and move it in the right direction, start to make it an economy that is moving because of the money in the private economy. When you think about it, when the Fed is lowering an interest rate, what it's doing is it's creating more liquidity. It's putting more money into the economy. The same thing happens when you reduce the tax except if happens from physical policy.” IfsThinkingImportantDoneRealityGovernmentHappensMovingInterestEconomyPolicyTaxesCreatingImportant ThingsRatePopsSpendingThings HappenCodePermanentFedsMore MoneyReductionRight DirectionInterest RateGovernment SpendingLiquidityPermanent Change Author:Rudy Giuliani
“From 2008 to 2016 all the growth in the American economy, all the growth in national income, was earned just by the wealthiest 5% of the population. So they got all the growth. 95% of the population didn't grow. If you can get a flat tax or other lower tax, as Trump is suggesting, then this richest 5% will be able to keep even more money. That means that the 95% will be even poorer than they were before, relative to the very top.” IfsMeanAbleGrowsGrowthEconomyTrumpTaxesPopulationIncomeFlatsRelativeMore MoneySuggestingAmerican EconomyFlat Tax Author:Michael Hudson