Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house. – Ramakrishna
Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax. – Richard Neal
Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion. – Roger Wicker
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. – Rick Perry
I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And – that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time. – Rick Perry
Tax cuts create more jobs and this is something we as Republicans have to do a better job of marketing. – Pete Sessions
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job. – Robert Quine
Let’s restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation’s millionaires and billionaires while the middle class picks up spare change. – Paul Tonko
Tax season always means a deluge of tax advice. Unfortunately, most of it is futile and lightweight. – Robert Kiyosaki
I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they’re stimulative and they help with demand. – Peter Welch
Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda. – Richard Neal
If I tax them, in fact, I’m not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out. – Shimon Peres
If you had a carbon tax, you’d have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport. – Richard Rogers
History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss. – Pete Sessions
There are some really wealthy hedge fund billionaires in San Francisco who have pledged a lot of money for Democratic candidates to argue for cap and trade and carbon tax and all these things. – Ron DeSantis
‘Tax Collector’ was optioned for a series with F/X, but it never happened. I guess they ran into a problem trying to figure out why someone would tune in to watch a show about a guy who works for the IRS. – Rick Yancey
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them. – Robert Reich
President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here’s a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett’s. – Rob Portman
The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden. – Richard Neal
Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise. – Paul O’Neill
We are one of only two FTSE 100 companies which do not use offshore or other tax avoidance arrangements. In fact, we are probably one of the highest taxpaying companies in the index. – Peter Hargreaves
People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes. – Richard Neal
There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can’t say they didn’t work. – Phil Gramm
I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A Fair Tax would replace all federal taxes on personal and corporate income with a single national tax on retail sales, while a Flat Tax would apply the same tax rate to all income with few if any deductions or exemptions. – Ralph Hall
My opponents attitude is, ‘If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it. – Rob Simmons