“Wall Street is being investigated, but they are not asleep while it's being done. You see where the Senate took that tax off the sales of stocks, didn't you? Saved 'em $48,000,000. Now, why don't somebody investigate the Senate and see who got to them to get that tax removed? That would be a real investigation.” RealDoneWould BeBusinessStreetsWallTaxesSavedEmsSenateInvestigationBeing Done Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933 Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933
“The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.” IfsGivingWellsLongWould BeMillionsThousandTaxesGiving UpSixHundredVoteGladIncomePassingPassingsEmsSenateCentsIncome Tax Author:Will Rogers
“The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's race.” PeopleNeedsPersonsEnoughHumorAblePoliticalNextRaceGenerationsTaxesRateBudgetsAssetsSenateTransfersPolitical Humor Author:George W. Bush
“I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. But I've also gone to Chicago. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson, I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder...” WantYearsKindDifferentLeftHoursPartyHalfGoneFiveCuttingRepublicanTenTaxesBiggerBudgetsFive YearsChicagoSenateDifferent KindsBalancedDetroitLeft AloneTax CutsHalf HoursBaltimoreFergusonBalanced BudgetBigger Better Author:Rand Paul
“The American people want to raise the minimum wage. Every poll tells us that. That bill will not get to the floor of the Senate. The American people want to ask the rich to pay more in taxes. But the legislation that will get to the floor is tax breaks for billionaires.” PeopleWantAsksPayBreakRichTaxesRaisesBillsSenateMinimumLegislationPollsBillionaireMinimum WageTax Breaks Author:Bernie Sanders
“Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.” HouseTaxesMembersStandardsCongressCodePlusSenateWeighingMusk Book:Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway Source: Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway
“The last man to try to run for president advocating a tax increase was Walter Mondale. He lost 49 states in 1984, and the "I'll raise your taxes" reputation haunted him all the way to Minnesota last year, where he lost his 50th state in the Senate election.” MenWayTryingYearsStatesRunningLastsLostPresidentTaxesIncreaseRaisesElectionReputationSenateLast YearAdvocatingMinnesotaTax IncreasesWalter Mondale Author:Dick Morris
“I served on the budget committee in the Senate, and I remember as vividly as if it were yesterday when we had a hearing in which Alan Greenspan came and justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt - outrageous in my view.” IfsNeedsRememberViewsPayCuttingTaxesHearingDebtSpendingYesterdayBudgetsSenateCommitteesJustifiedOutrageous Author:Hillary Clinton
“I should say the leadership's proposal in the Senate and the House are very unpopular. And when people realize it will raise taxes, raise their insurance premiums cost and explode the deficit, they think twice about it.” PeopleThinkingShouldHouseRealizingCostTaxesRaisesSenateDeficitProposalThink Twice Author:Rahm Emanuel
“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
“In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses.” NeedsHardIndividualTermHard WorkTaxesBurdenSenateSmall BusinessShort TermTax Burden Author:Joni Ernst
“I think [Donald Trump] s got the votes for [tax reform]. I think he's definitely has the Republican votes for it, in House and Senate, and I think he probably has maybe 20 percent of the Democratic vote for it. So he could get it done with a bipartisan majority.” ThinkingDoneHouseTrumpRepublicanTaxesPercentVoteMajorityDemocraticReformSenateGet It DoneBipartisanTax Reform Author:Rudy Giuliani
“Everything [Ronald Reagan] got, the tax cuts, he had Democrats outnumbering him in the House and Senate everywhere. There were certain realities that he faced. But the biggest tax increase on Social Security was authored by none other than Bill Clinton.” RealityCertainHouseSocialCuttingSecurityTaxesIncreaseBillsClintonDemocratSenateSocial SecurityTax CutsTax Increases Author:Rush Limbaugh