“Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace and it's got to be fixed.” TodayAmericaYoungTaxesPaidAbsolutesWorkersFixedDisgracePresent DayAmerica Today Author:John McCain
“Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he wants business to help the little fellow to get started and get some work, and then pay business back by buying things when he's at work. Business says, 'Let everybody alone. Let business alone, and quit monkeying with us, and we'll get everything going for you, and if we prosper, naturally the worker will prosper.'” IfsWayWantLittlesHelpingPoliticsPayTaxesFellowsWorkersBottomQuittingRecoveryBuyingAnother WayBuying ThingsHigh Taxes Author:Will Rogers
“The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.” CountryForceNumbersPayEconomicSkillsTaxesResourcesWorkersProductivityOur CountryLuxuryContributionExpensiveExpensesUnemploymentLarge NumbersTreasuryAmerican WorkersEconomic Resources Author:Lane Kirkland
“If you bring [tax] rates down, it makes it easier for small business to keep more of their capital and hire people. And for me, this is about jobs. I want to get America's economy going again. Fifty-four percent of America's workers work in businesses that are taxed as individuals. So when you bring those rates down, those small businesses are able to keep more money and hire more people.” PeopleIfsWantAbleJobsAmericaIndividualEconomyFourEasierTaxesPercentWorkersRateFiftyMore MoneySmall Business Author:Mitt Romney
“By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.” IfsShouldStatesGovernmentTurnsPayHonestTaxesMembersStandardsPaidWorkersIncomeVotingBureaucracyTaxpayersAccountingUnorthodoxGovernment Workers Author:Ilana Mercer
“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
“More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.” SocialSecurityTaxesBenefitsPercentProgramIncreaseWorkersTrendsFewerSocial SecurityExpectancyPayrollLife ExpectancyPayroll TaxLonger Life Author:Alex Tabarrok
“I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.” ThinkingWantChildrenBigsHouseWhiteTaxesWorkersWhite HouseGuestsBig Business Author:Peter Brimelow
“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
“We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave.” WorldNeedsHelpingJobsAmericaGoalClassEnvironmentFiveMiddleTaxesHighestPercentWorkersRateCorporateThirtyMiddle ClassAmerican Business Author:Lindsey Graham
“I'm one of the few people up here who actually believes that we need a level playing field when it comes to manufacturing. That means a good tax code, a good regulatory environment, low energy prices, better opportunities for workers to get training...” PeopleNeedsBelieveMeanOpportunityEnergyLevelsEnvironmentFieldsTaxesLowsTrainingWorkersCodeManufacturingPlaying FieldsLevel Playing Field Author:Rick Santorum
“And what would help minority workers are the same things that would help white workers: the opportunity to earn a living wage, the education and training that lead to such jobs, labor laws and tax laws that restore some balance to the distribution of the nation's wealth.” HelpingJobsLawOpportunityNationsWealthWhiteBalanceTaxesTrainingLaborWorkersMinoritiesDistributionLiving WageLabor Laws Book:The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
“When Obama boasts that it will be a huge boon to the economy to give amnesty to millions of low-wage workers, who won't pay income taxes but will need a lot of government services, remember: Obamacare was supposed to save money, too.” NeedsGivingGovernmentRememberPayMillionsEconomyHugeTaxesLowsWorkersIncomeBoastObamacareIncome TaxSaving MoneyAmnestyBoonGovernment Service Author:Ann Coulter
“We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits.” StrongSocialDemocracyShareSecurityTaxesUnionsWesternWorkersProfitIncomeOwnersContractsTemperSocial SecurityCompensationIncome TaxBusiness OwnersEquitableSocial Contract Author:John Shelby Spong
“I find it extraordinary that I'm being told I can't trust you the voter to get a government in to protect workers rights and that we need Brussels to defend you, the euro is a broken project we are going to pay, no you are going to pay out of your taxes one bailout out of another and the European union does not protect your jobs.” NeedsDoeI CanGovernmentJobsPayRightsBrokenProtectTaxesProjectsUnionsExtraordinaryWorkersVotersEuropean UnionEuroBrusselsBailoutsWorkers RightsCan't Trust You Author:Gisela Stuart
“This is a very challenging time in the life of our nation. Weakened America's place in the world after the leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the world stage has been followed by an economy that is truly struggling, stifled by an avalanche of more taxes, more regulations, Obamacare, the war on coal and the kind of trade deals that put American workers in the back seat.” WorldKindHas BeensWarAmericaNationsChallengesDealsStruggleEconomyStageTaxesTradeClintonWorkersBarackSeatsRegulationCoalObamacarePlaces In The WorldAvalanchesAmerican WorkersChallenging Times Author:Mike Pence
“I am not supportive of large multi-national corporations that made billions a year in profit and don't pay a nickel in taxes, nor am I supportive of those corporations who throw American workers out on the street and then move to China or Mexico.” YearsMadeMovingPayStreetsTaxesWorkersProfitChinaBillionsCorporationsMexicoSupportiveNickelsAmerican Workers Author:Bernie Sanders
“One thing I think we have to do is to make sure that the undocumented workers who are living in America today, that they have to take responsibility. They've got to register, pay a fine, pay their back taxes, learn English and then get on a pathway in which they could have the prospect of being here legally.” ThinkingTodayAmericaPayResponsibilityOne ThingFineTaxesWorkersTaking ResponsibilityPathwaysRegisterAmerica TodayUndocumented Workers Author:Barack Obama
“Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.” GivingStatesJobsAmericaChoicesUnitedCompanyBreakUnited StatesTaxesTrainPlantWorkersShipsCorporationsUnited States Of AmericaNew JobTax Breaks Author:Barack Obama