#taxes

I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law. ↗

— Ray Dalio

#away #follow #give #i #law

You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#create #cutting #jobs #passing #taxes

If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy. ↗

— Joe Walsh

#another #billionaires #cliff #create #debt

In the current law we're seeing Social Security dwindle. And so what we're saying is if we're going to reduce taxes we just want to make sure that there are things within the law that pay for it. ↗

— Kevin Yoder

#current law #going #just #law #make

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy. ↗

— Dan Bartlett

#economy #hurt #only #raises #taxes

In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and encouraging people to make as much money as they can. Profits equal tax money. While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#benefits #celebrating #curtain #distasteful #encouraging

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly. ↗

— Henry Knox

#admired #apt #assessed #been #collected

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness. ↗

— Henry Knox

#darkness #far #light #may #ostensible

The art of taxation consists of plucking the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing. ↗

— Jean-Baptiste Colbert

#tax #taxes #art