Taxes Quotes - Page 14

• Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.

  Rand Paul

  Reality, Debt, Regulation

  "Sen. Rand Paul's Speech at Howard University". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.

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• Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.

  William Shakespeare

  Keys, Silence, Enemy

  William Shakespeare (1805). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.160

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• Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

  Christine Pelosi

  Oil, Presidential, Shelter

  "Ryan Roadmap STILL a Roadmap to Ruin for Social Security" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2012.

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• Tax what you burn not what you earn.

  Christine Pelosi

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• Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Cutting, Priorities

  "Pelosi finally weighs in on tax deal" by Matt Negrin, www.politico.com. December 7, 2010.

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• What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Children, Cutting

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• For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.

  Mike Pence

  Pregnancy, Government, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.

  Mike Pence

  Moving, Discipline, People

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2010.

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• Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

  Mike Pence

  Data, Historical, Income

  Interview with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 7, 2010.

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• The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.

  Mike Pence

  Cutting, Reality, Years

  "Reps. Pence, Clyburn Survey Political Landscape". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2010.

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• Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.

  Mike Pence

  Cutting, Reality, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.

  Mike Pence

  Government, Dollars, Care

  "Why Read the Health Care Bill?". Interview with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. July 28, 2009.

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• You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Rainy Day, Texas

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• Then, there are the places you would rather not go-a tax collectors' convention, a sewage treatment plant, or maybe the home of someone who keeps spiders as pets and insists on taking them out of their cages and making you hold them.

  Obert Skye

  Home, Pet, Spiders

  Obert Skye, Ben Sowards (2007). “The Whispered Secret”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• [Under Obama,] our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially became a U.S. foreign export.

  Rick Perry

  Abortion, Dollars, World

  "Texas' Perry Assails Obama on Abortion at Stop in Los Angeles". The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. June 13, 2011.

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• We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

  Rick Perry

  Want, Taxpayers

  "Rick Perry Supports Work Visas For Undocumented Immigrants In US". www.foxnews.com. November 04, 2011.

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• Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Tired, Government

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• In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.

  Rick Perry

  Government, Michigan, Toilets

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• My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

  Rick Perry

  Simple, Class, People

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• I think you need to have a tax system that basically is flat, fair and simple. And - that you can put on a post card. I mean, even Timothy Geithner could do this one and get it on time.

  Rick Perry

  Mean, Simple, Thinking

  "SQUAWK BOX" with John Harwood, www.cnbc.com. October 25, 2011.

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• We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

  Rick Perry

  Cutting, January, Raises

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• It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right.

  David Plouffe

  Country, People, Doe

  "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2011.

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• 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

  Cutting, Class, Levels

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• As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

  John Podhoretz

  Ideas, Matter, Groups

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• Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.

  John Podhoretz

  Cutting, Obamacare, Pro Life

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