Let’s abolish the IRS, let’s eliminate income tax, let’s eliminate corporate tax, let’s balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax. – Gary Johnson
We all know what the problems are: it’s tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won’t tax but will spend. It’s both of them together. – Glenn Beck
Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes. – Dick Durbin
Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax. – Mike Royko
The medical device tax repeal is the only proposal that had the most bipartisan votes coming out of the House and has the opportunity in the Senate to gain tractions, and it fixes a part of ObamaCare in terms of repealing an awful tax. And it’s got bipartisan support. – Erik Paulsen
The patriotism in Britain comes from us being a leader. On jobs, on tax havens, on workers’ rights, on the environment. We can be leading Europe… and it will be to the benefit of every British citizen. – Gordon Brown
What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He’ll have Social Security reform passed, that he’ll have tax reform passed, that he’ll have conservative judges on the courts. – Pat Robertson
The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15, we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail. – P. J. O’Rourke
Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful. – Charles Vest
Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work. – Marsha Blackburn
Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates – all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze. – David Harsanyi
Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America. – P. J. O’Rourke
Now, I do think when we move into 2012 and ’13 when, presumably, the economy is on firmer ground, I would allow the tax rates for upper-income individuals to revert back to where they were before the cuts in the 1990s. I think at that point it makes perfect sense. – Mark Zandi
If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason. – Gary Johnson
Well, you know, we’ve got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages. – Franklin Raines
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. – Nicolas Chamfort
Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses. – Michael K. Simpson
When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer. – Nick Hanauer
The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet. – Martin L. Gross
My goal in getting rid of tax loopholes is not to raise taxes. Our problem in Washington, D.C. is not a revenue problem, it is a spending problem. – Mike Pompeo
Businesses large and small shouldn’t have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it’s still good. – Michael Enzi
You have got to clear up that corporation tax in the modern way has had its day as a major source of revenue, and we have got to find a new system. – Nigel Lawson
Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here. – Enda Kenny
Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution. – Frances Beinecke
President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it. – David Limbaugh
If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you’re not doing well, you pay less. – Matt Gonzalez
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once. – Gore Vidal