#taxes

When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government. ↗

— Ken Buck

#government #grow #hands #leave #money

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#am #comes #creating #creators #desperately

[Justice Owen Roberts, writing the majority opinion for the Agricultural Adjustment Act, said] 'A tax, in the general understanding of the term, and as used in the Constitution, signifies an exaction for the support of the Government. The word never has been thought to connote the expropriation of money from one group for the benefit of another. ↗

— Jim Powellll

#taxes #money

I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#agencies #am #any #eliminate #i

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes. ↗

— George W. Bush

#cutting #economic #economic policies #elected #everybody

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#increasingly #subsidizes #system #taxes #work

You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#economy #taxes #taxing #business

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love. ↗

— Joe E. Lewis

#love #marry #might #taxes #way

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the canidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy--to be followed by a dictatorship. ↗

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

#law #taxes #welfare #freedom

Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will burn out vital parts of your car. Similarly, cutting taxes on the middle class, but increasing them on the 'rich' is likely to result in an economic burnout. ↗

— Terry Savage

#brake #burn #burnout #car #certainly