#tax

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#basically #creating #jobs #means #new

You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#business #code #complicated #gal #got

Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell. ↗

— Darius Rucker

#how #i #label #liked #lot

I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#always #amazed #could #felt #form

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. ↗

— John Ruskin

#fortunes #founded #labor #land #large

Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits. ↗

— Tim Russert

#better #cost #country #cuts #deficits

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#economic #economic growth #growth #here #keep

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#debt #did #get #just #money

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#become #conventional #conventional wisdom #federal #government

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#capital #creation #death #deprives #discussion