New Jersey residents deserve to have their tax dollars spent on transportation and infrastructure projects right here in the Garden State instead of being wasted in Washington. – Scott Garrett
I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations. – Tom Allen
According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That’s about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It’s not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code. – Sheldon Whitehouse
My No. 1 priority is growth in the economy. Tax reform will be our first and most important part of that. – Steve Mnuchin
I’m not for a temporary war tax. We’re putting actual dollars in one way or the other, and so if we’re gonna look at taxes, we ought to look at a comprehensive tax reform policy. – Stephen Pagliuca
American tax dollars spent on education are meant to support students, not support aggressive, deceptive, and misleading marketing campaigns by certain for-profit education companies. – Sherrod Brown
Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class. – Steve Mnuchin
Fish and Wildlife has a significant amount of federal funds for land acquisition, yet it is skimping on management of the lands it already possesses and shortchanging local tax bases. – Stephen Fincher
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected. – Thomas Sowell
Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq. – Tim Russert
I think that something is fundamentally wrong if a person of his great wealth is only paying 13.9 percent effective tax rate and most of Americans are paying 28, 30 percent and they make far less. – Terri Sewell
In general, anyone who paid the long distance telephone tax will get the refund on their 2006 federal income tax return. This includes individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations. – Virgil Goode
The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world. – Thomas Piketty
Most years, if you were to ask me how much I make, the genuine answer is that I have no clue. I usually find out the answer to that question once a year, at tax time, when my accountant tells me. – Simon Sinek
While a reverse mortgage can indeed be a viable way to generate income, it is very important to understand that after you take out a reverse mortgage, you will still be responsible for paying the property tax, the insurance premium, and all the maintenance costs for your home. – Suze Orman
I’m not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness. – Stephen A. Schwarzman
I was an international tax specialist. Yeah, I was an international man of mystery and tax specialist. – Stephen Pagliuca
The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there – from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security – are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in. – Trent Lott
Long before Wesley Snipes decided he didn’t need to pay the IRS, Willie Nelson was dodging the tax men. – Shawn Amos
On my income tax 1040 it says ‘Check this box if you are blind.’ I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. – Tom Lehrer
There will be a big tax cut for the middle class. But any tax cuts we have for the upper class will be offset by less deductions that will pay for it. – Steve Mnuchin
I’ve been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I’ve been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much. – Tom Golisano