No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.
- Joe Biden


We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
- Hillary Clinton


Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
- Hillary Clinton


The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.
- Hillary Clinton


The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein


An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.
- Newt Gingrich


I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
- Thomas Jefferson


To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
- Thomas Jefferson


I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
- Barack Obama
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I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
- Barack Obama
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I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
- Barack Obama
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You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.
- Barack Obama
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The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
- Ronald Reagan


The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
- Ronald Reagan


The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!
- Jerry Seinfeld


What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
- Mark Twain