Tax cuts are temporary, tax increases are permanent.
My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society
Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis.
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
Instead of talking about cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, we must end the absurdity of corporations not paying a nickel in federal income taxes.
The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.
EITC is an invitation to fraud.
President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.
Taxes are the killing fields of Democrats.
If you increase the sales tax. . . everybody would be taxed.
He [Mitt Romney] didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain, but obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?
As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.
Don't tax you, don't tax me; Tax the companies across the sea.
I think the knowledge about how legislation really affects small businesses is extremely valuable. If you haven't run a small business, then you don't have this kind of knowledge about how a regulation passed or taxes increased affects your bottom line. If you recognize that every new regulation takes that much more time to comply with, requires that many more employees, then it really gives you that foundational basis to make those decisions.
The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.
People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.
By getting rid of loopholes, you are making the system more fair so people who make the same kind of money pay the same taxes.
No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.
