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Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10... KARL ROVE
Tax increases slow economic growth. Why would you raise taxes? We need to reform spending, the tens ... GROVER NORQUIST We think there are no magic puddings ... any new spending and tax cuts will need to be paid for by c...
DANIELLE WESTWATER
Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by con... RONALD REAGAN The only people who are actually paying the taxes are new home buyers. A lot of the wealthy people a...
BILL AARON Obama and Clinton wrongly believe that the corporate income tax is a tax on the rich. The reality is...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 y...
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE
I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama. ADAM MCKAY Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last t...
STEVE STOCKMAN
If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the par... MURRAY ROTHBARD
'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one r... JOE BIDEN
The biggest source of getting the country to a balanced budget is not by raising taxes or by cutting... MITT ROMNEY Projects that were not aligned with compliance and corporate governance were delayed or cancelled, a...
FRENCH CALDWELL
Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG It would be absolutely foolish, until the effect of the new taxes are known, to be talking or voting...
DON WEAVER We don't have any doubt that, in one way or another, the taxes on sales to non-Indians are going to ...
JAMES CALVIN In New York, the average total state and local tax burden is $5,260 for every man, woman and child. ...
TOM GOLISANO Governments are either going to have to cut spending by that much or they are going to have to incre...
JACKIE NYTES Everyone who moves to New York City has a book or movie or song that epitomizes the place for them. ...
CATHLEEN SCHINE specifically provided that taxes for 2003, 2004 and 2005 were to be paid for by the seller (Citibank...
JUSTIN MURPHY If you're paying for child care today, or if you're paying for custodial care of a dependent parent,...
JOSEPH MARTINGALE
There is a deficit; I'd like to see it lowered. But it's up to Congress to decide whether that shoul... BEN BERNANKE The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true...
NEIL CAVUTO
Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes ... JAMES SUROWIECKI
We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money... MARCO RUBIO
So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what ... PAUL RYAN
When I became mayor of New York City, I had a $2.4 billion deficit. And everybody wanted me to raise... RUDY GIULIANI The burden shouldn't always fall on the taxpayers of Union City; everyone new to the city should pay...
FRANK ALONZO It's unusual to see a mayor with this kind of surplus not announcing some significant new spending p...
DOUG TURETSKY
Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in t... JENNIFER GRANHOLM
Hiking taxes on the so-called wealthy would help send us into a recession because so many small busi... RONALD KESSLER Tax cuts would probably flow directly into corporate profits. Companies are lean and mean today, com...
CHRISTINE CALLIES
Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for... PAUL RYAN
The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY
When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new tax... TED CRUZ The town is spending more than what were paying in taxes. People will have to start going to town me...
BILL BARNES
They're running someone who is not a New Yorker. Someone who has not paid taxes in New York, someone... GEORGE PATAKI Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice...
JENNIFER DUNN
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not ... BARRY GOLDWATER
Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare... MARCO RUBIO
To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don... SARAH PALIN
Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for eve... ADAM CAROLLA I had been given advice not to mention corruption, however corruption is a tax that is paid by you. ...
JOSEPH MUSCAT
No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney a... BARACK OBAMA This budget is a fraud on the people of New Jersey. He promised he would reduce spending. Instead, h...
ALEX DECROCE The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help th...
ADAM COHEN
Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work... ZACH WAMP Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longe...
MARTIN FELDSTEIN
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not ... BARRY GOLDWATER
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not ... BARRY GOLDWATER
Obama broke his no-new-taxes pledge 15 days after he took office when he signed legislation on Feb. ... BOB BEAUPREZ Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be...
STEVE MNUCHIN
I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percenta... CHRIS CHRISTIE Many feel we have too many lawyers already. ... In my view, new programs, new campuses and new schoo...
FRANK BAUER Federal gas tax revenues that are paid into the trust fund by highway users should be used for progr...
CYNTHIA LUMMIS
The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reache... MARCO RUBIO
A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics... BERNARD GOLDBERG It is troubling that before we have had any real discussion of possible spending cuts the governor a...
ALEX DECROCE If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: 'fair,' leveled and social...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Well it's a 15 percent federal tax, those who live in New York City, you do have New York State and ...
DAVID SANDS King would certainly be overjoyed by Barack Obama's inauguration, but we must avoid, and indeed ...
DAVID GARROW I'll approach both taxes and spending from the angle of how low a burden can we impose.
CHRIS STEVENS Tea Party attendees and health care town-hall protesters share the common belief that the extravagan...
ANDREW BREITBART Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting cov...
FELICITY HUFFMAN
When some Republican governors asked to try new ways to put people on welfare back to work, the Obam... WILLIAM J. CLINTON The people of New Jersey do have a history of supporting public education. So despite the problems w...
FRANK BELLUSCIO
We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individual... BRUCE RAUNER
Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better econo... LARRY ELDER The only way politicians will be able to get more money to fund this under funded pension is again b...
JOE SINAGRA
The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reduc... GROVER NORQUIST They're not interested in cutting taxes; everybody knows that, ... When they were in charge, they ne...
TOM DELAY
To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task. CHUCK SCHUMER New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunch...
TOM HOLT I agree with that. I've always supported a property-tax convention, as long as it includes a look at...
LEONARD LANCE
President Obama has offered a plan with 4 trillion dollars in debt reduction over a decade, with two... WILLIAM J. CLINTON
Altered social conditions may remove certain ailments and deformities in existing society. But the n... ELLEN KEY
the larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private... HENRY HAZLITT
Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. ... JOHN CORNYN The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all e...
ED ROYCE And those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of...
STEVE WYNN President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less gover...
RALPH HALL It's always pleasing to hear we have a low tax burden. The governor is very conscious of the tax bur...
HAL HARPER People are unhappy with the direction of the country - we saw that with the rise of the Tea Party; w...
COREY LEWANDOWSKI People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
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The Obama economy is great for rich people. It's terrible for everybody else. ROB PORTMAN
By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in persona... MIKE PENCE
What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller gov... ED ROLLINS Federal and provincial programs that benefit the city of Ottawa are financed by hard working, tax pa...
SEAN MCKENNY In the wake of the disaster caused by Tropical Storm Sandy, various allies of the Obama campaign hav...
ROBERT ZUBRIN
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Will the adoption of this new plan pay our debts! This, Sir, is a plain question. It is inferred, th... PATRICK HENRY
Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax atto... ROBERT REICH A wonderful new legal foundation has been laid. Now specific programs need to be constructed by the ...
CAMERON TRUESDELL
Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. ... ANN COULTER If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, ...
BILL JOHNSON
This new measure dramatically reforms what was one of the fastest growing fiscal responsibilities fo... GEORGE PATAKI One thing it highlights, again, is the wrong-headedness of the notion that higher state taxes and in...
MATTHEW MAGUIRE
You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil. BILL GATES
Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a ... MARCO RUBIO The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let...
JOHN MCCAIN
