You should be attacking the carbon emissions, period, and whether it’s cap-and-trade or carbon tax or whatever, that’s the realm in which we should be playing. – Joe Biden
It has always amazed me how tax cuts don’t work until they take effect. Mr. Obama’s experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011. – Arthur Laffer
Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition to which we are exposed; and nothing but a system of high protective duties, long continued, can prevent us from meeting it successfully. It is that which we have to fear. – John C. Calhoun
At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that. – Bono
Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable. – James P. Hoffa
By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. – John Podhoretz
All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted – the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires – virtually none. – Anthony Weiner
Using static scoring, tax cuts are broadly assumed to ‘cost’ a raw amount of reduced revenue. With dynamic scoring, the new revenue likely to flow from increased economic activity produced by a tax cut is considered, improving the accuracy of the projection. – John Delaney
When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen. – Bill Gates
I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration’s reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there. – Jack Kingston
The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself. – Carter G. Woodson
I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break. – Christina Ricci
Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs. – Andrew Mellon
For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor’s requests were not funded. – Anthony Weiner
Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers. – Ibrahim Rugova
Mr. Trump is proud to pay a lower tax rate, the lowest tax rate possible. He fights for every single dollar. That’s the mindset you want to bring to the government. – Corey Lewandowski
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it’s not fair. – Adam McKay
What I’d like to do is continue a private sector, free market Main Street types of policies. And those include less regulation. They include a fairer, flatter tax system. – Bill Flores
Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves. – Ari Fleischer
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. – Alex Tabarrok
I don’t believe, the president doesn’t believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don’t think the evidence supports that. – Austan Goolsbee
When you talk about a ‘broad-based business tax,’ that’s a pretty broad term. I don’t know what that means. But it’s not something I would be supportive of. – Brian Sandoval
I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income. – Allen West
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven’t been taxed before. – Art Buchwald
For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising. – Austan Goolsbee
I don’t know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for. – Claire McCaskill
In 2001, Republicans used reconciliation to pass President Bush’s $1.35 trillion tax cut that mainly benefited the wealthy. – Bernie Sanders
Here’s the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus 1.5 per cent national insurance paid by employees plus 13.3 per cent paid by employers. That’s not 50 per cent. Two years from now, Britain will have the highest tax rate on earned income of any developed country. – Andrew Lloyd Webber