Americans don’t think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession. – Mitch McConnell
For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth. – David Malpass
An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world. – Matt Taibbi
Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity. – Eugene Jarecki
You need basically some accountability rules, which means democratic checks and balances at the euro zone level, and definitely, you have to increase convergence in terms of taxes, in terms of social affairs and so on. – Emmanuel Macron
Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country. – Paul Ryan
The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay. – P. J. O’Rourke
Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we’ve got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things. – Fabrizio Moreira
Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes… to an extent, that’s true elsewhere, including the United States, but it’s been pretty extreme in Greece. – Noam Chomsky
People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. – Mian Muhammad Mansha
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. – Gore Vidal
I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn’t need a tax after that. – Michael Badnarik
A huge segment of the country has always felt overtaxed. In 1938, when taxes were roughly 17% of income, a ‘Fortune’ survey found that nearly half of all Americans thought they paid too much relative to what they got in return. – Nina Easton
Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes? – Mark Steyn
If Congress doesn’t raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check. – Grace Napolitano
But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes. – Dar Williams
It’s not just spending, it’s not just taxes, it’s not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats. – Glenn Beck
As Indiana’s governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn’t always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say ‘no.’ – Evan Bayh
And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes. – George W. Bush
