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President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.
Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.
A progressive digital ad revenue tax would also make sure that dominant social media platforms bear the brunt of the tax.
And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.
I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.
We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.
I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don't want to - I just want to be at home with my family.
When, as an individual, you are not paying taxes, it is evasion. As a corporate, it is legal shrewdness or tax engineering.
If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.
Quality health care services must be accessible and affordable for all - not just those in certain ZIP codes or tax brackets.
If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.
I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
We need to cut the capital gains tax; we need to take regulations off the backs of business and allow banks to once again lend.
I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.
If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.
The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.
The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.
The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.
For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.
I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.
Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.
We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.
As a captain of industry, I would prefer more tax breaks to help people buy houses, but as a citizen, I realize someone has to pay.
Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.
I am committed to the people who are sick and tired of seeing their tax dollars being used to fund unethical people and corporations.
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spending cuts rather than tax increases.
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.
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
As Liberal Democrats, our plan is to stop Brexit and with it the nurse tax and other barriers to E.U. nurses coming to work in our NHS.
By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.
Instead of a universal basic income, we could have a basic income guarantee. Or, as economists prefer to call it, a negative income tax.
When I see the sort of mindless tax cuts for the wealthy, cuts to education, I just think we've got it exactly backward in this country.
A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.
I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.
From the IRS standpoint, 15,000 new employees have to be added just to, you know, administer ObamaCare and look at the tax implications.
Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.
The Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy's flipping burgers - she needed a tax break. But the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not.
I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax.
Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.
I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. And all my cars are just a collection of art.
Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.
Brownfields cleanups have been treated like capital investments in the tax laws, and they really are repairs and should be taxed as such.
I support tax revenue increases, including the top 2 percent, but only if accompanied by responsible spending limits. The key is balance.