#tax

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

#american #american people #blueprint #budget #children

By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in personal savings accounts, the plan ensures that Social Security taxes will be used for Social Security. ↗

— Mike Pence

#american #american people #any #ensures #people

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

#does #effective #effectively #fairness #going

People go tanning because they like to feel tan. You feel more sexy when you're tan and I don't understand why you would tax on that, because you're making yourself feel more happy about yourself. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#because #feel #go #happy #i

President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's. ↗

— Rob Portman

#about #all americans #businesses #corporations #fortune

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#citizenship #comes #contract #democratic #most

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#certain #death #death and taxes #except #nothing

Americans spend 3 billion hours per year filling out tax forms and keeping tax records. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#filling #forms #hours #keeping #out

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#american taxpayers #code #complex #compliance #expensive

Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes. ↗

— John Redwood

#both #brought #closer #collect #consume