“You've got to ask yourself, why won't Donald Trump release his tax returns? I think there may be a couple of reasons. First, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be. Third, we don't know all of his business dealings, but we have been told through investigative reporting that he owes about $650 million to Wall Street and foreign banks. Or maybe he doesn't want the American people to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantFirstsMayHas BeensReasonAsksMillionsRichStreetsWallReturnTrumpCoupleTaxesThirdsClaimsPaidReleaseCharitableDealingsTax ReturnsFederal Taxes Author:Hillary Clinton
“If [Donald Trump] is paid zero [taxes], that means zero for troops, zero for vets, zero for schools or health.” IfsMeanSchoolTrumpTaxesPaidZeroTroopsVets Author:Hillary Clinton
“People like Donald Trump, who paid zero in taxes, zero for our vets, zero for our military, zero for health and education, that is wrong.” PeopleMilitaryTrumpTaxesPaidZeroVetsHealth And Education Author:Hillary Clinton
“I mean the truth is, I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in my life.” MeanTermTruth IsTaxesPaidRateLowest Author:Warren Buffett
“The freedom-hating gun-grabbers do not care about reducing crime or saving lives, or they wouldn't be fighting for more gun-free zones where the most innocent lives are always slaughtered. Those squawking the loudest for banning guns from we the people will not get rid of their we-the-people tax-dollar-paid armed security guards.” PeopleCareHateFightingSecurityCrimeTaxesGunPaidDollarsInnocentSavingZoneReducingSave A LifeTax DollarsSecurity GuardsInnocent Life Author:Ted Nugent
“Once you have an equalization instrument in place, as you have in Canada, there arise tremendous bureaucratic values - bureaucratic rent so to speak - in maintaining the system that you have. To shift to a system that paid the transfers directly to individuals, by having differential rates of federal income tax levied to adjust to provincial fiscal capacities, which would be my preference, you would have huge bureaucratic opposition. People would try to protect the rents they have in the current system of institutions.” PeopleTryingWould BeValuesIndividualSpeakHugeProtectTaxesCapacityPaidInstitutionsInstrumentsRateCurrentsIncomeAriseCanadaOppositionPreferenceMaintainingTransfersIncome Tax Author:James M. Buchanan
“You can get a coalition of senators from particular states in America, for example, who want to construct highways or dams or ports which may well be very inefficient. The taxes would be paid by the people over the whole country, but the benefits would go to the few people in those particular locations. This type of spending is a rather gross waste of resources that worsened over the years as the government has been allowed to do more particularized things.” PeopleWantYearsWellsMayHas BeensCountryStatesWholeGovernmentWould BeAmericaExampleParticularTypeTaxesWasteBenefitsResourcesPaidSpendingSenatorsLocationConstructsGrossHighwaysPortCoalitionsDams Author:James M. Buchanan
“I don't want to increase taxes, I just want taxes to be paid honestly.” WantTaxesIncreasePaidHonestly Author:Narendra Modi
“Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by investments in good training and wages for caregiving, including early childhood education, in the market.” ShouldCareChildhoodPolicyProduceTaxesTrainingPaidInvestmentIncludingCreditGoodsWagesParentalEarly ChildhoodCaregiversCaregivingEarly Childhood Education Author:Riane Eisler
“I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.” I CanWifeTaxesPaidWestMy WifeIncomePenniesVirginiaWest Virginia Author:Joe Manchin
“What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.” CountryGovernmentTaxesPercentPaidMajorityOilAcceptedProducersFairness Author:Olusegun Obasanjo
“You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.” GovernmentCareIndividualEconomyOughtAmountTaxesMembersVotePaidBillsDollarsCongressHealth CareSmall BusinessTakeoversGovernment Takeover Author:Mike Pence