When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you’re not being taxed, then you’re not being represented. – Andrew Nikiforuk
President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage. – Bill Shuster
In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department. – Bernie Sanders
You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money. – Andrew Cuomo
Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators’ ability to supply power. – Alex Berenson
My biggest worry is that Obama says he’s going to tax the upper 5 percent by raising their taxes by 20 percent. But among that 5 percent are the corporations that are hiring middle-class Americans. – Chuck Norris
Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001. – Bill Delahunt
I believe we now have a glorious opportunity: we can pass our laws and set our taxes entirely according to the needs of the U.K. economy. – Boris Johnson
Sadly, the President’s budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country’s severe fiscal problems. – Carl Levin
Huguette Clark has had her own tax liens – four times, the IRS has filed to collect taxes from her. – Bill Dedman
I’m a Conservative. I don’t believe there should be too many rules. There should be lower taxes. – Alistair Brownlee
Most of us have not heard about Master Limited Partnerships. These special financing arrangements allow oil and gas investors to avoid paying certain corporate income taxes, but are not available to clean energy businesses. – Bernie Sanders
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. – Andrew Mellon
The only question where there is disagreement is should the highest income rates above a quarter million dollars a year go back to where they were under Bill Clinton. That is the dispute about the taxes. – Austan Goolsbee
This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn’t send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them. – Adam Hasner
I’m proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. – Arthur Godfrey
All’s the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way. – Adam Carolla
Rich people don’t pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes – they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn’t pay taxes. – Adam Carolla
The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole. – Barack Obama
I only have disdain for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He raised taxes and has increased regulations. What else is new? He’s a bully who wants to micro-manage people’s lives by mandate, not persuasion. – Mark Skousen
In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector. – Geoff Mulgan
Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody’s getting a tax cut here. We’re not cutting taxes. We’re preventing tax increases from occurring. – Paul Ryan
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes. – P. J. O’Rourke
While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform – primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid. – Fred Upton
In the United States, the wealthy have a tradition of charity. But in Germany, the rich say, ‘We pay taxes. It’s enough.’ – Gunter Blobel
Yes. I don’t think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011. – Mark Zandi