Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons.
It would be a lot cheaper for me not to have to raise tens of millions of dollars to elect progressive candidates who will raise my taxes.
Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.
Taxes are just too high - that's obviously a priority.
Don't get me wrong, I am a proud Republican, and I want to support my party. I am a firm believer in the Republican principles of smaller government, low taxes and economic freedom. I have spent my time in government service fighting for these principles.
There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
It isn't inevitable that we have a globalization which is used by the corporations not to pay taxes. It is not inevitable that we have a form of globalization in which corporations use the threat of moving jobs abroad to lower wages. None of this is inevitable.
Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.
I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
I'm against high taxes. But we certainly cannot be so anorexic in government that we cannot function.
While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.
In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.
I'm a conservative, pro-life governor in a state where it is really tough to be both. A state like New Jersey, with lots of Democrats, but still we cut taxes, we balanced budgets. We fought the teacher's union.
Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.'
All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.
In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.
We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials.
Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training, job-readiness skills, literacy instruction and, if necessary, the counseling and mental-health services they need to move into the mainstream workforce.
The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.
Most European countries fund their low corporate taxes with some form of a value-added tax, on consumption rather than income.
Higher taxes kill jobs. Regulations kill jobs.
I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
Higher taxes still does not create prosperity for all. And, more government still does not grow jobs.
Taxes aren't the way to go. They'd strangle the economy; you wouldn't create the wealth. And nothing squanders money as well as a government. What we need is to encourage rich people to give.
I didn't pay my taxes for years.
I know firsthand that immigrants make enormous contributions to our nation, but I also know that we need to secure our borders and make sure that those who came here illegally wait their turn, pay a fine and any unpaid taxes, and pass a criminal background check before becoming citizens.
Governments should end the extreme concentration of wealth in order to end poverty. This means tackling tax dodging but also increasing taxes on wealth and high incomes to ensure a more level playing field and generate the billions of dollars needed to invest in healthcare, education, and job creation.
We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.
Raising property taxes in Alabama is never going to happen. The people are never going to vote for that. I don't like property taxes, either.
Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.
I believe that in order to sustain a governing majority, the Democratic Party has got to learn that it can govern without raising taxes.
The easy way out is to increase taxes.
I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.
