Taxes Quotes - Page 12

• I will be the greatest jobs president that God has ever created. The tax relief will be concentrated on the working and middle class. I will be president for all Americans.

  Donald Trump

  President, Middle Class

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• A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.

  Tony Abbott

  Cutting, Increase, Tax Cuts

  "Carbon wars". 7.30 with Chris Uhlmann, www.abc.net.au. March 21, 2011.

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• Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

  Tony Abbott

  Be Good, Wells, Policy

  "Abbott discusses new leadership role". www.abc.net.au.

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• Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.

  Eric Alterman

  Income, Pay, Cleaning

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• Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.

  Joe Baca

  Jobs, Cutting, Creating

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• I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

  Michele Bachmann

  School, College, Law

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• I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

  Michele Bachmann

  Jobs, Creation, Job Creation

  "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 14, 2011.

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• I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.

  Michele Bachmann

  Zero, Giving, Alternatives

  "The Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious scholarship ... my husband and I have raised five kids, we’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Husband, Kids

  "Chris Wallace Asks Michele Bachmann: ‘Are You A Flake?’" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2011.

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• Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

  Honore de Balzac

  Fate, Blood, Political

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• I know that I pay 48 percent of my income to taxes. You know, I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't going just to export war. If it was actually going to help the people of the United States, I would gladly pay more.

  Roseanne Barr

  War, People, Mind

  "Presidential hopeful Roseanne Barr lays out platform on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Business, Humor

  "Your Guide to Self-Directed". Book by Daniel Cordoba. p. 197, September 19, 2008.

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• More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?

  Gary Bauer

  Party, Issues, Political

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• Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.

  Bob Beauprez

  Years, Income, Four

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• The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

  Bob Beauprez

  Democrat, Rate, Closing

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• During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.

  Bob Beauprez

  Dollars, Campaigns, Election

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• Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.

  Bob Beauprez

  Meaningful, Cutting, Growth

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• What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.

  Bob Beauprez

  Cutting, Government, Land

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• This is the disease in America. 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

  Party, Republican, Corruption

  "Glenn Beck Delivers Keynote Speech To Enthusiastic CPAC". www.newsbusters.org. February 20, 2010.

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• In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

  Joe Biden

  Climbing, Ideas, Hiking

  "One-on-one with Joe Biden". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 19, 2010.

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• No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

  Joe Biden

  Income, Gains, Pennies

  Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, debated in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2008.

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• Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard. We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That's not a tax raise. That's called fairness where I come from.

  Joe Biden

  Cutting, Class, Dollars

  "CBS Uncritically Promotes Obama Campaign's Attack Hinting Romney is 'Less than Truthful'". Interview with Nancy Cordes, www.newsbusters.org. October 5, 2012.

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• This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

  Joe Biden

  Impact, Environmental, Gasoline

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• If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

  Lewis Black

  Class, Warfare, Rich

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• You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Cutting, Entitlement, Economic

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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