#taxes

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#conservative #dentist #guy #i #like

Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future. ↗

— Tim Johnson

#clearly #creating #cutting #families #future

I plan to lower corporate taxes to create an environment that encourages companies to invest more. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#corporate #create #encourages #environment #i

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#bureaucratic #capital #degrees #different #effort

So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#about #away #become #concerned #contribute

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud. ↗

— Nicolas Sarkozy

#am #country #europe #france #highest

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#changes #draft #families #fought #group

The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes. ↗

— John Shadegg

#collecting #currently #each #individual #number

While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue to subsidize the cost of the drugs for consumers across the world. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#american #american consumers #consumers #continue #cost

Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes? ↗

— Mark Steyn

#consultants #credible #mitt #needed #taxes