1913 wasn’t a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS. – Ron Paul
You talk to tax attorneys who are not politically motivated, and they will tell you they would never advise their client to release any tax information in the course of an audit. – Paul Manafort
Along with Senator Lieberman and others, I introduced the Energy Security Bill to use existing technologies with a variety of tax incentives to reduce our dependence on oil. – Sam Brownback
It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system. – Robert W. Welch, Jr.
I know I’ve got to pay some tax, but I hate the fact that they collect millions of pounds a day from the congestion charge and I don’t see anything or anyone benefitting from it. Where are the new hospitals? – Ray Winstone
It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia. – Richard Flanagan
Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set. – Robert Reich
The U.S. has fallen behind with tax policies that haven’t been updated in a half-century. – Rob Portman
Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities. – Ron Lewis
I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save รด?1,000 there’s someone saying, ‘Oh, we’ll invent a tax to take that off him.’ – Richard Griffiths
We shouldn’t be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: ‘You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.’ – Rob Portman
Here’s the problem: the so-called ‘millionaire surtax’ is a permanent tax to pay for a temporary benefit. – Rodney Frelinghuysen
It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax. – Richard Neal
Do you want to use your tax dollars to educate more people who can’t get jobs? I want to make sure that we spend our money where people can get jobs when they get out. – Rick Scott
Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour. – Zac Goldsmith
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life’s savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all. – Thomas Sowell
I’ve traveled the country advocating for the Fair Tax, along with Herman Cain, Neal Boortz, and John Linder. – Tom Graves
All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion. – Victor Ponta
While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day. – Tim Bishop
The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to – to corporate loopholes, because we really need to raise more revenue. – Stephen Pagliuca
If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the priority must be to avoid tax increases. They would disrupt consumption, employment and investment. – Theresa May
The last thing we need to do when natural gas has been such a blessing is raise the severance tax. – Tim Griffin
We don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business? – Will Rogers
When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax. – Tim Griffin
I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word ‘fair’ in connection with income tax policies. – William F. Buckley, Jr.
If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble. – Terry Pratchett