“The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.” CertainTaxesBenefitsBurdenAlternativesMinimumTax Burden Author:Richard Neal
“Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.” IfsTermEconomyGrowingTaxesLowsBurdenSpendingChecksTemporaryDeficitManageableIfs AndTax Burden Author:Jim Nussle
“5: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1944: The G.I. Bill will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1965: Medicare will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1994: Health care will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!” CountryCareSocialBreakSecurityHugeCitizensTaxesBillsBurdenLibertarianOur CountryHealth CareSocial SecuritySmall BusinessMedicareTax Burden Author:Joseph Conrad
“We need to make sure that people can save all the money they spend on medical care by getting it back from their taxes, by reducing their tax burden.” PeopleNeedsCareTaxesBurdenMedicalReducingMedical CareTax Burden Author:Ron Paul
“We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.” StatesTaxesMassBurdenIncomeExpensesYieldThinkerLotteryPrudentSubsidiesTax Burden Author:Willard Van Orman Quine
“So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating war in Afghanistan and maintaining over 850 military bases around the world, the administration has run up the national debt that Smith decried. By shifting the tax burden off property and off rent-seeking monopolies - above all, off the financial sector - this policy has raised America's cost of living and doing business, thereby undercutting its competitive power and running up larger and larger foreign debt.” WorldWarRunningAmericaTakenMilitaryPolicyCostTaxesBasesPropertyRaisedFinancialSaintSeekingBurdenDebtAround The WorldAdministrationEnterpriseAfghanistanMaintainingMonopolyShiftingStanceAnd OffFree EnterprisePatronNational DebtCost Of LivingEscalatingTax BurdenMilitary Bases Author:Michael Hudson
“Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing.” PeopleGovernmentSufferingPoorMiddleTaxesLowsWorkersBurdenSpendingIncomeInflationBorrowingDeceitfulGovernment SpendingTax Burden Author:Ron Paul
“I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will provide middle class payroll tax relief to get money in the pockets of workers who will spend it, not more tax giveaways for those at the top to stimulate the economy in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. A President who will index the minimum wage to inflation and raise it from a 30 year low, not increase the tax burden on the middle class and those struggling to join it.” ThinkingYearsRealJobsPresidentClassStruggleEconomyEconomicMiddleSecurityTaxesLowsIncreaseRaisesWorkersBurdenIslandsReliefMiddle ClassPocketsMinimumGood JobInflationMinimum WageGet MoneyPayrollEconomic SecurityPayroll TaxTax BurdenBermudaCayman Islands Author:John F. Kerry
“Fewer and fewer people are paying larger and larger percentage of the tax burden, as you know, almost half the people pay no income taxes at all. We're going to have more people in the wagon than we got pulling the wagon before long and that's not going to work. Those jobless numbers, you know, go hand-in-hand with those tax numbers.” PeopleKnowsLongHandsNumbersPayHalfTaxesBurdenIncomeFewerJoblessPullingGoing To WorkPercentagesHand In HandIncome TaxWagonsTax Burden Author:Fred Thompson
“Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores. They expect to be blamed by teachers and psychologists, if not by police. And they will be blamed by the children themselves. It is hardy a wonder, then, that they withdraw into what used to be called "permissiveness" but is really neglect.” IfsFeelsChildrenMadeProblemSchoolUsedParentWonderTeacherTaxesTestsPolicePopulationBurdenUsed To BeGuiltyContributionScoreNeglectPsychologistHardyTest ScoresTax BurdenPopulation Problem Author:C. Sommerville
“Any substantial tax reform would involve substantial redistributions of tax burdens and substantial changes in asset values, and you need some 'lubrication' (i.e., transition rules).” NeedsValuesTaxesBurdenReformAssetsTransitionTax ReformTax BurdenLubrication Author:Robert Reischauer
“States with high and rising tax burdens are more likely to suffer economic decline; those with low and falling tax burdens are more likely to enjoy strong economic growth.” StatesSufferingFallStrongEnjoyGrowthEconomicTaxesLowsBurdenRisingDeclineEconomic GrowthTax Burden Author:Lawrence Kudlow
“I'm conscious of competitive issues, but at the same time the recommendation they make is that we protect citizens by not adding to the overall tax burden of the province.” IssuesCitizensProtectTaxesConsciousBurdenProvincesRecommendationsTax Burden Author:Christy Clark
“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
“If you want less of something, tax it. If you want more of something, don't tax it or reduce the tax burden.” IfsWantTaxesBurdenTax Burden Author:Ted Nugent
“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