Quotes About Government

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

If we had a flat tax code rather than a 70,000-page document full of cronyism and favors, bureaucrats and elected officials wouldn't have the power to do you any favors. That's what we need. You would have to compete on your own on a level playing field, but that's not what the government permits now.

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.

We in Scotland need fiscal responsibility. Quite simply, we need to be responsible for what we raise in tax and what we spend in tax.

If we lower the payroll tax, will Americans let us raise it again? I don't think so.

It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.

People don't seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it's pretty straightforward to me.

Most economies have a fair amount of tax evasion, depending on how their data systems are.

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

That darn luxury tax is pretty painful.

Republicans think tax filing should be easier for you, not just the well-connected.

It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

I'm still one who says that we can get rid of the Internal Revenue Service if we would pass the fair tax, which is a tax on consumption rather than a tax on people's income, and move power back where the founders believed it should have been all along.

Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.

Student loan origination fees are nothing more than a hidden tax that burdens students.

I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.

I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.

Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.

In 2001, Congress passed much needed tax relief to allow Americans to keep more of their hard earned money and spend it as they see fit - rather than how the federal government sees fit.

Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.