#axes

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#cut #draw #economy #government #government spending

The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#anyone #bush #bush tax cuts #cuts #economic

Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#appropriate #certainly #i #point #raise

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#cell phones #communication #diminished #e-mails #electronic

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible? ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#death #fight #impossible #lower #lower taxes

Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#cutting #dollars #economy #effective #effective way

The only question where there is disagreement is should the highest income rates above a quarter million dollars a year go back to where they were under Bill Clinton. That is the dispute about the taxes. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#above #back #bill #bill clinton #clinton

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#business #business people #cut #income #lowest

If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#create #going #harder #i #i think

It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to. ↗

— Phil Gramm

#earn #fair #hands #head #living