“We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans, and college for every young person who wants to go. In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future. In policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class. These are the policies I have fought for my entire career.” PeopleWantPersonsCareYoungEnergyGrowsClassCareersEconomyCuttingMiddlePolicyCollegeTaxesHealth CareLiftsMiddle ClassWagesTax CutsNew Energy Author:Barack Obama
“When people live in the full light of an open society, paying their taxes, abiding by the rules, that makes not only our country safer and more secure because people are not relegated to living in the shadows and not creating underground economies, it also is better for wages because the fact that people are working on the books in the open means that there's greater demand for labor and you don't have this submarket.” PeopleMeanBookCountryFactsLightEconomyGreaterDemandTaxesCreatingShadowLaborOur CountrySecureWagesAbiding Author:Martin O'Malley
“Democrats in Washington predicted that tax cuts would not create jobs, would not increase wages, and would cause the federal deficit to explode. Well, the facts are in. The tax cuts have led to a strong economy. Real wages were on the rise, and deficit has been cut in half three years ahead of schedule.” YearsWellsHas BeensRealFactsJobsThreeStrongCausesHalfEconomyCuttingTaxesIncreaseDemocratThree YearsSchedulesWagesDeficitTax CutsStrong Economy Author:George W. Bush
“There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on wages and salaries. Only when the American people are confronted with the enormous excesses of government in a personal and direct way - by an annual bill for services rendered - will they be able to make an informed judgment about which services they want and which ones they can do without.” PeopleWayWantMatterGovernmentAbleCan DoModernReturnTaxesJudgmentDirectBillsEnormousExcessWagesTaxationSalaryModern LifeBetter WaysAnnualsWithholding Author:Karl Hess
“If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with your bosses, but if everything is privatized, and ordinary Americans have to pay for everything through their wages, then they're at the mercy of their employers. If the workers know they'll be ruined if they lost their jobs, they're not going to be uppity. You want to break their spirit.” IfsKnowsWantCareSchoolJobsSpiritLostPayEducationBreakHealthTaxesOrdinaryMercyUniversalWorkersHealth CareBossWagesRuinedEmployersPublic SchoolBargainingFree EducationUniversal Health Care Author:Michael Lind
“We can decide that the presence of cancer-causing substances in our air, water, and food is too expensive. A 2009 study, for example, has found that coal miners in Appalachia costs the region five times more in premature deaths, including from cancer, than it provides to the region in jobs, taxes, and economic benefits. In California, the production and use of hazardous chemicals cost the state $2.6 billion in 2004 alone in lost wages and health-care expenses to treat workers and children with pollution-linked diseases.” ChildrenStatesUseCareJobsFoundLostWaterStudyFiveAirEconomicExampleCostTaxesDiseaseBenefitsTreatsEnvironmentalWorkersIncludingCancerProductionsBillionsHealth CareSubstanceCaliforniaExpensiveRegionsExpensesChemicalsPollutionWagesCoalLinkedPrematureMinersAppalachiaCoal MinersPremature Death Author:Sandra Steingraber
“A four percent growth strategy means you fix a convoluted tax code. You get in and you change every aspect of regulations that are job killers. You get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something that doesn't suppress wages and kill jobs.” MeanJobsGrowthFourTaxesPercentAspectStrategyCodeKillersRegulationWagesObamacareConvoluted Author:Jeb Bush
“And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.” DoeHardTodayLastsLinesWealthLandHonestHard WorkTaxesFairsDollarsRewardsWorking ItWagesFarmingPenniesAssemblyAssembly LineTax SystemHonest Work Author:George McGovern
“If you've been frugal during your life and tried to save, you're penalised by the tax system. You pay tax on your wages, your savings and even your private pension.” IfsPayTaxesSavingWagesSavingsPensionFrugalTax System Author:Geoff Capes
“[Hillary] Clinton wants to raise taxes, raise wages and she wants to do things like put caps on drug prices.” WantDrugTaxesRaisesClintonWagesCaps Author:Maria Bartiromo
“Economic growth, profitability, prosperity, jobs, increased jobs, increased wages, they're able to get that tax rate down to 15% and we're gonna call it tax relief, not tax breaks, not tax loopholes. It's important to control and reclaim the language here.” ImportantAbleJobsLanguageGrowthBreakEconomicTaxesRateProsperityReliefWagesEconomic GrowthLoopholesProfitabilityTax Breaks Author:Rush Limbaugh
“People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries, of billionaires not paying any federal income taxes and of not being able to afford a college education for their kids - all while the very rich become much richer.” PeopleCountryKidsAbleJobsHoursRichSeeingCollegeTaxesLowsTiredChinaIncomeDecentWagesBillionaireIncome TaxCollege EducationTired Of Working Author:Bernie Sanders
“We're going to cut taxes, deregulate to try to create general pro-growth conditions, at the same time, much more than any other Republican ever before, [Donald Trump] is going to focus on trying to tighten the labor market directly through discouraging outsourcing and tightening up on immigration, all towards the goal of actually increasing wages, that's a new focus for the Republican Party and a very important one.” TryingImportantGoalGrowthPartyFocusCuttingConditionsTrumpRepublicanTaxesLaborImmigrationWagesRepublican PartyDiscouragingOutsourcing Author:Rich Lowry
“Grow jobs. Get this economy growing. Raise wages. Simplify the tax system, so it's easy to comply with.” JobsGrowsEasyEconomyGrowingTaxesRaisesWagesSimplifyTax System Author:Paul Ryan
“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
“Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.” AmericaPayLibertyProgressTaxesHumorousProfoundAverageInsaneWagesTaxationIncome TaxIrsTax DayPaying TaxesTaxes FunnyProperty Taxes Author:H. L. Mencken
“The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.” FeelingsHumorFunnyTimeSinTakenTaxesTiredWagesTaxationFunny MoneyTax DayRaising Taxes Author:Paula Poundstone