I favor the abolition of all Social Security, Medicare and estate taxes. In their place, we should create a simple income tax system that has no deductions or credits at all. – Ari Fleischer
Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts. – Charles Koch
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will. – Barack Obama
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? – The Bible Matthew 5:46
Since FDR’s New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government. – Adam McKay
We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody. – Barry Diller
But let me perfectly clear, because I know you’ll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime. – Barack Obama
I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief. – Bob Graham
The Clinton tax increase – which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people – not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life. – Barney Frank
Accelerated depreciation helps companies bring forward capital-intensive investments by reducing payback time. It’s not a hand out. Companies still have to pay the tax, but they simply get to defer it. – Anthony Pratt
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. – Alexis de Tocqueville
Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive. – Auberon Herbert
We shouldn’t be undermining Medicare for those who need it most in order to give more tax cuts to those who need them least. – Ann McLane Kuster
The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes. – Bob Beauprez
I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations. – Bernard Arnault
Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings. – Bob Holden
I had a small investment in Twofold, following guidance from my professional advisers. I had, however, claimed no tax relief of any amount in regard to this investment. Given the concerns raised about it, I have now instructed my advisors to withdraw me from the scheme with immediate effect. – Bradley Wiggins
Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country. – Ari Fleischer
Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors – brilliant! – Charles Krauthammer
Voters did say ‘repeal health care’, they did say ‘reduce the size of government.’ But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said ‘give tax breaks to the wealthiest.’ – Chuck Schumer
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It’s an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia. – Adam McKay
President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America’s long-term economic and fiscal health. – Bob Beauprez
Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas. – Andrew Forrest
If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family – the founders of Wal-Mart. – Bernie Sanders
We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform. – Brad Schneider