#axe

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand. ↗

— Jack Markell

#business #business leaders #counted #hand #leaders

In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#always #bipartisan #came #controlled #deficit

I want to be on the field. It's a better place to talk to the guys. It's a relaxed atmosphere. You want to make sure you know what's going on, not just with the hitters. ↗

— Don Mattingly

#better #better place #field #going #guys

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#especially #middle #raising #raising taxes #recession

The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#bad news #bill #business owners #creators #end

So I have a friend who works for me once a week. She's got e-mail, so anybody that must send an e-mail, they send it to her and she faxes it to me. Sounds like a long way of doing things, but it works for me. ↗

— Marian McPartland

#doing #e-mail #faxes #friend #got

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. ↗

— Andrew Mellon

#based #common #common sense #idea #lowering

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#average #average american #formerly #got #much

Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#challenged #change #hostile #how #impression

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#any #cost #crime #education #face