“Donald Trump was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. I mean, no way in the world that Donald Trump is a champion of working people. He has hurt workers in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Florida, multiple bankruptcies, never showed his taxes. I don't know any good thing this guy's ever done. And yet, because he was able to throw hate and poison on Hillary Clinton, he was able to somehow prevail at least until the Electoral College. I think he was skilled at just sort of, like, keeping the attention on anyone but himself. He is the most outrageous person ever to win a presidential election.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindMeanDoneHateWinningHurtAttentionImagineCollegeTaxesElectionGood ThingsClintonPresidentialChampionMultipleBankruptcyPresidential Election Author:Keith Ellison
“In order to make the tough decisions we have to know what our values are and who we're fighting for and our priorities and if we are spending $300 billion on tax cuts for people who don't need them and weren't even asking for them, and we are leaving out health care which is crushing on people all across the country, then I think we have made a bad decision and I want to make sure we're not shortchanging our long term priorities.” PeopleThinkingLongCountryCareValuesFightingTermDecisionCuttingTaxesToughLeavingPrioritiesHealth CareLong TermCrushBad DecisionTough Decisions Author:Barack Obama
“We have a raising wages agenda. And that includes tax policy, trade policy. TPP is a very bad agreement. Covers 40 percent of the world's economy, and it will cost us jobs. It's not well-drafted. It's an agreement, an investment agreement that will benefit Wall Street a lot, but not working people.” PeopleEconomyPolicyWallTaxesTradeInvestment Author:Richard Trumka
“The country doesn't owe you anything because you're an American or especially because you have a college degree. Now, if you think... If you are a college student and you've got a degree and you're out there and you can't find a job and if you think - if you agree with Obama that the Bush tax cuts ought to sunset - $700 billion ought to be taken out of the private sector and sent to Obama, then you deserve to be out of work for the rest of your life because that $700 billion taken out of the private sector could be used to grow businesses and hire people.” PeopleThinkingCountryTakenCuttingStudentsCollegeTaxesDeserveAgreeSunsetCollege StudentsCollege Degree Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Catching Trump out not paying his taxes, treating his employees like garbage - none of this sticks to him because that actually reinforces his power, power over other people, which is this specific kind of power that he's selling.” PeopleKindTaxesSellingEmployee Author:Naomi Klein
“We need to remake and reinvent our housing system so that it supports the flexibility and mobility of our economic system broadly. Home-ownership is rewarded by the federal tax code, which made great sense when that piece of the American Dream, and all the consumption that came with it, was essential to rebuilding the economy. These days, however, it feels like a huge penalty to people who want to travel light within the new mobile economy without a mortgage to hold them back.” PeopleDreamSupportEconomyEconomicTaxesCodeAmerican DreamFlexibilityMortgageIt Support Author:Richard Florida
“I don't think "Reganomics" will ever fully end. I mean, Reaganomics, to put it simply, was trying to get low taxes for wealthy people. And wealthy people are still there pushing for low taxes.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanTaxesWealthy Author:Dean Baker
“Opening a small business is a reasonable thing for you to do but should tax payer, should an ordinary worker have to pay more money in taxes because someone across the street from them opened up a business which might well go under? For a lot of people opening a business is a bad choice for them. Most small businesses fail. I understand people wanting to give it a try and everything but we're not necessarily doing them a favor to say, take all your life savings, borrow to the hilt, and then struggle for three years and end up with nothing. We're not necessarily doing them a favor.” PeopleGivingTryingChoicesStruggleFailingTaxesSmall BusinessLife Saving Author:Dean Baker
“We are under the stifling regulation and taxes of a predominantly left-wing type of thinking and philosophy. The eight years of Barack Obama have shrouded this country in punitive regulations. We haven't had economic growth higher than one and a half percent for the last eight or nine years, and that was done on purpose. There have been robust times in the past, and there are a lot of people right now that are doing well and are growing. But generally it ought to be much better in the past. There needs to be an economic revival.” PeopleThinkingCountryDonePhilosophyPastPurposeGrowthEconomicTaxesBarackRevivalEconomic Growth Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Remember back in the nineties, a bunch of Democrats decided to tax luxury items, including yachts? They figured it was not fair that some people could afford yachts, and so since they could, they said, "We're gonna tax the hell out of yachts at the point of sale, 'cause it's not fair. We need to collect revenue from all this!" What happened was that the people who actually build the yachts lost their jobs because people stopped buying them.” PeopleRememberHellTaxesDemocratYacht Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Who are we talking about? We're talking about the people that are trying to criminalize Donald Trump. We're talking about the people that are trying to impeach him. We're talking about people who are trying to via innuendo and leak and media assassination, we're dealing with people that are trying to destroy Donald Trump and his press secretary just signaled that they are serious about reaching out to these people to try to get certain things done, legislatively, like infrastructure or tax reform.” PeopleTryingDoneSeriousTaxesReach OutSecretaryInnuendo Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We have landowners, small growers. We have people who are holding onto land that was acquired by their families after slavery. They need to produce some of the food we eat, so they can pay the taxes and hold onto the property. Taxes keep going up. We, and by we I mean black people, are rapidly becoming a landless people. Our ancestors, coming out of slavery, acquired more than 15 million acres of land. Today, we're probably down to less than 2 million acres.” PeopleMeanTodayBlackTaxesSlaveryPropertyKeep GoingBlack PeopleAncestorHolding On Author:Shirley Sherrod
“It started with Ronald Reagan, when he took away the financing to the California universities. It used to be cheap to send your kids to the UCs. They'd call it an investment, because the more you educate people, the more they'll pay in taxes, because they'll get better jobs. But Reagan said, "No, it's a cost, so you're going to have to pay the cost." So now people can't afford to get an education. Anyway, I don't want to get too political, but yeah, I think the spirit of this country is finally coming back, and hopefully it will triumph.” PeopleThinkingCountryKidsPoliticalSpiritTaxesInvestmentHopefullyGet BetterEducateFinancing Author:Tim Matheson
“By getting rid of loopholes, you are making the system more fair so people who make the same kind of money pay the same taxes.” PeopleKindTaxes Author:Paul Ryan
“We aren't protecting the people who most need it when those who can contribute to the country's success emigrate. Contrary to what some claim, I am not getting rid of the wealth tax to help the rich.” PeopleHelpingWealthRichTaxes Author:Emmanuel Macron
“What the Trump tax plan is a plan to give tiny little tax cuts to most Americans, raise taxes on perhaps one in five families and shower benefits on people who earn millions of dollars a year. And this fits with a fundamental principle the Republicans have been pursuing for a long time. The rich aren't investing and creating jobs, because they don't have nearly enough money, and so we need to get them money. And the way the Republicans want to get it to them is tax cuts first, and then to take away help for children, the disabled, the elderly and the poor.” PeopleGivingChildrenLongEnoughHelpingPoorRichCuttingFitRepublicanTaxes Author:David Cay Johnston
“The Bush Republicans' policies are, the antithesis of patriotic. And so we urge Democrats to reclaim patriotism - to call on all Americans to pull together. And, yes, to sacrifice. Rich people will have to do with fewer tax cuts. Middle class people will need to drive less and switch to more fuel efficient cars . And poor folks - especially young ones - will have to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies and other indicia of social pathology.” PeopleTogetherPoorRichCuttingSacrificeCarPolicyTaxesDemocratMiddle ClassPatrioticPregnancyRich PeopleAntithesisYoung Ones Author:Paul Begala
“If I were a candidate for running, I'd say, "Look at what the economy has done." It's strong. We've created a lot of jobs. I'd be telling people that the Democrats will raise your taxes. I'd be reminding people that tax cuts have worked in terms of stimulating the economy. I'd be reminding people there's a philosophical difference between those who want to raise taxes and have the government spend the money, and those of us who say, "You get to spend the money the way you want to see fit. It's your money."” PeopleDoneRunningStrongTermEconomyCuttingFitTaxesPhilosophicalDemocrat Author:George W. Bush
“In the eyes of many business leaders, there is never an opportune moment for tax reform. Yes, the economy is losing momentum, but that is not because a handful of people are losing their privileges. Slow growth did not first begin during my term in office; the market downturn is making itself felt around the world. My government has responded with an agenda aimed at raising productivity. We are also investing substantially in infrastructure - the plan calls for €20.5 billion or $26.3 billion by 2021.” PeopleWorldMomentsEyeGrowthTermLeaderEconomyTaxesOfficeLosingProductivity Author:Michelle Bachelet
“Until White America can look through the eyes of a Black man, nothing will change. Even we as Black people sometimes don't want to face what's going on within our communities because some of us crossed over into a different tax bracket, but these issues affect the communities that raised us, so it affects us all.” PeopleMenDifferentSometimesEyeBlackCommunityTaxesBlack People Author:Antonio Cromartie
“Despite all the taxes people pay, there supposedly isn't any money in this country for art. Of course, this makes an artist ask himself: "Well, then, what are you doing with the 100 million I pay each year? What happened to that money?" And he doesn't get an answer.” PeopleArtCountryArtistTaxes Author:Georg Baselitz
“I don't know a lot of writers, even writers who have been on the bestseller list for a few weeks, or writers who have gotten movie options, who can live on just their writing income. Once you break it down to the years it took to write the book, place it, promote it, and you pay the agent, pay the taxes, the annual income is not enough to live on comfortably. I do not have a starving artist inclination. I'm from the working class. I don't feel creative unless I feel like my house is going to be there and I'm going to be fed. I can't worry about money and write. Maybe some people can.” PeopleWritingBookEnoughArtistHouseBreakWorryCreativeWeekTaxesWorking ClassStarving Artist Author:Debra Monroe
“Canadians expect their government to make sure we're helping the people who need the help and growing the economy, and that's exactly what we're committed to do, not just with our historic investments into infrastructure that are going to create jobs while the others are focusing on cuts, but by lowering payroll taxes, by lowering EI premiums from $1.88 to $1.65, at the same time as we make sure that the people who need help are getting the help that they paid into, because they're not getting it under Stephen Harper. That's what Canadians expect from their government.” PeopleHelpingEconomyCuttingTaxesInvestmentCommittedHistoricNeed HelpPayroll Author:Justin Trudeau
“You can't lift people out of poverty simply by tweaking the tax system, or by raising the minimum wage by a few cents, or by reducing student debt slightly. These might be necessary components of a larger anti-poverty program, but you have to accept they are pieces of a much larger puzzle.” PeopleAcceptingPovertyStudentsTaxesProgramPuzzles Author:Sasha Abramsky
“You know, the elites always want to shame the poor - right? - and everyone else. I mean, the fact is, this economy is based on 70 percent of the people driving consumer demand. If people do not purchase goods and services, this economy will grind to recession. And that is why, if you are going to do a tax cut, it ought to really be aimed at low-income and middle-income people.” PeopleMeanPoorEconomyCuttingTaxesShameDrivingGrind Author:Keith Ellison
“Look, rich people already have a lot of money. There's literally trillions of dollars in cash held by corporations, their stock valuations at an all-time high. They do not need a tax cut to do anything. They can invest now, if they wanted to. They don't want to, because they can make more money just by mergers and stock buybacks and stuff like that. So, this is really just sort of a travesty.” PeopleRichCuttingTaxesRich People Author:Keith Ellison
“I don't want to stand with somebody's praise. Whereas now when people come up to me, they say, "I love the bookstore" and "Kids! Come here, come here! This is the woman who owns the bookstore." That's incredible. I can say to that, "Thank you for shopping local. Thank you for coming in. What are you reading? Let's talk about books." It's about something I'm doing as opposed to somehow something I am. I feel comfortable and positive in that role. Because it's about reading. It's about books. It's about learning. It's about business and tax base.” PeopleBookKidsReadingTaxesPraiseIncredibles Author:Ann Patchett
“Right now, America doesn't ask us to do anything besides pay taxes. We don't even have to vote. But as psychologists will tell you, when you have to sacrifice for something, you value it more. What about national service for young people? Everybody between 18 and 24 could spend a year or two working for this country in some capacity. It'd be an amazing thing. And it would mix this country racially, culturally, economically.” PeopleCountryValuesSacrificeTaxesVotePsychologist Author:Sebastian Junger
“There is this fashionable progressive notion that everything is so completely political that the idea we could have some sort of neutral legal process is practically utopian - because we all know that the more money you have, the more rights you can exercise in this society. But I don't think that you deal with income inequality by limiting the First Amendment rights of affluent people. I'd rather see people screw around with the tax code to redistribute wealth a little bit than screw around with the First Amendment.” PeopleThinkingPoliticalWealthExerciseTaxesInequalityCodeProgressiveFirst AmendmentFashionableUtopian Author:Wendy Kaminer
“When the president talks about tax reform, he talks about the people who will benefit. He talks about American jobs. He talks about the fact that we're going to be taking money that's overseas and bringing it back to the United States so that it will employ American workers. I think that focus again on the American working and middle class is- is-is to me the most thoughtful and, in some ways, the most genius part of Trump's approach to politics.” PeopleThinkingPresidentFocusGeniusTaxesThoughtfulMiddle Class Author:James Vance
“When you say the tax system benefits the rich, there are a lot of people who respond, "That can't be true, look at the rate of tax. The people who are rich pay a higher rate than you or I." Well, yeah, but if you don't have to pay taxes on a lot of your income, then your real tax rate is a lot lower. And if you're allowed to pay your taxes thirty years from now instead of today then you're a lot better off. People need to have a sophisticated understanding of how the system works to appreciate that the posted tax rate really has very little to do with the taxes people pay.” PeopleRealTodayUnderstandingRichTaxesAppreciateRateBeing TrueSophisticated Author:David Cay Johnston
“Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.” PeopleGivingGovernmentRolesCuttingTaxesDemocratTax CutsRole Of Government Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.” PeopleRunningTaxesBuiltConcernedBridgesPaying Taxes Author:Rush Limbaugh
“What about feeling sorry for those who pay the taxes? Those who are people that no one feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say 'enough,' they are called selfish.” PeopleGivingFeelsEnoughFeelingsPayTaxesSorrySelfishFeeling Sorry Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I know that I pay 48 percent of my income to taxes. You know, I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't going just to export war. If it was actually going to help the people of the United States, I would gladly pay more.” PeopleIfsKnowsMindWarStatesHelpingUnitedPayUnited StatesTaxesPercentIncome Author:Roseanne Barr
“There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayThreeTaxesFairsResponsibleLegsSpendingCodeVery HappyEntitlementBipartisanStoolsEquitableThree Legs Author:Claire McCaskill
“I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.” PeopleIfsWantTryingFirstsEndsJobsAsksHoursRichFameTaxesRelativeBeing RichPaying Taxes Author:Bill Murray
“The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.” PeopleMenWantYearsLittlesSecretWonderBreakMillionsTaxesDollarsCorporateDirtyPoolMillion DollarsJetMortgageNaughtyTax Breaks Author:Dee Dee Myers
“A whole generation of people that didn't know me from 'SNL' recognize me from 'Weeds' now. People recognize me once in a while and appreciate the work. It gets a little embarrassing but it's good. If you work as an accountant, you don't have people coming up to you in the streets saying, 'Hey, great job on tax statements!'” PeopleIfsKnowsLittlesWholeJobsGenerationsStreetsTaxesAppreciateStatementsHeyWorking ItWeedKnow MeEmbarrassingUp To YouAccountantsGreat JobSnl Author:Kevin Nealon
“The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.” PeoplePowerfulPartyIssuesFocusTaxesReformTeaMost PowerfulAmerican PoliticsTea PartyGroverTax Reform Author:Grover Norquist
“But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsMeanFamilyBreakClearTaxesLet MeClaimsIncreaseRepeatsMassiveRollingDimesTax BreaksTax Increases Author:Barack Obama
“To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.” PeopleMotivationChoicesPovertyFitTaxesPatrioticLoaded Book:Collected Writings Source: Collected Writings
“Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.” PeopleMomTaxesPopsBoardsThriveSmall Business Author:Sarah Palin
“What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.” PeopleGivingChildrenJobsCuttingTaxesOur ChildrenBudgetsEducateHealthcareDeficitDiscussingTax CutsBlueprintsBudget Deficit Author:Nancy Pelosi
“The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.” PeopleKnowsMovingEconomyDisciplineTaxesBoardsReliefFarmsSmall BusinessFamily Farms Author:Mike Pence
“Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!” PeopleWayBigsGovernmentJobsPolicyCitizensTaxesCookingTiredKillingFedsNew WaysBig GovernmentFed Up Author:Rick Perry
“My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.” PeopleWantSimpleDealsQualityClassTaxesAgreeFlatsWealthyWarfareAspireQuality Of LifeClass WarfareBetter Quality Of Life Author:Rick Perry
“And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.” PeopleThinkingWantCountryPresidentCuttingTaxesClimateBurdenTax Burden Author:Rick Perry
“It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right.” PeopleKindDoeSaidCountryPayMillionsTaxesRateTeensFairnessSecretaryBuffett Author:David Plouffe
“The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.” PeopleLittlesProblemGovernmentToo MuchTaxesConservativeDebtSpending Author:Ronald Reagan