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LAWRENCE KUDLOW I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percen... JAMES MIRRLEES HERMAN CAIN If you were to look at Alaska simply with its corporate tax code compared to the rest of the United ... SCOTT HODGE The time is right to look at things like our corporate tax rate itself, and specific areas of stimul... TREVOR HUGHES North Carolina needs to revamp the tax code completely. We have some of the highest tax rates, like ... DAVID ROUZER DAVID BRODER The Panel's income tax reform plan would make some positive changes such as eliminating the double-t... CHRIS EDWARDS CHUCK SCHUMER BERNIE SANDERS If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax s... BOB TAFT The real problem in Greece is not cutting taxes, it's making sure that we don't have tax eva... GEORGE PAPANDREOU GARY JOHNSON RUSSELL B. LONG America's tax code is beyond repair. Tinkering with it won't work. The only hope is a bold t... KEVIN BRADY ELIJAH WOOD JOHN CORNYN ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER RICK PERRY TONY ABBOTT DWYANE WADE MARK WARNER The whole property tax discussion is about reform ... moving the property tax system to an income ta... DON HELLER It's time to permanently lower America's tax gate so that the $2 trillion in stranded U.S. p... KEVIN BRADY The 'block' in 'Attack the Block' is not just a physical thing. It's people; it&... JOHN BOYEGA If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is somet... AUSTAN GOOLSBEE ERIK PAULSEN GROVER NORQUIST There's been a lot said about Social Security reform. What has been left out of the debate is th... ROB SIMMONS Here's my thinking: Since tax reform only occurs once a generation, let's not tweak what we ... KEVIN BRADY ARTHUR LAFFER JOHN HOEVEN MARKUS ZUSAK This world is a joke, and I'm in it OLIWAH GOUDEE The financial system has to be regulated, we have to end with the tax havens, and it's necessary... LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA This is an area that I am very interested in because it does impact what our tax rate is going to be... LEIGH WOODALL ELON MUSK It is irresponsible for this Congress to not investigate the President's lack of an exit strateg... RUSS CARNAHAN PAUL RYAN MARTIN MCGUINNESS HA-JOON CHANG Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing ou... MARK SANFORD It's really impossible to argue that this tax bill simplifies the tax system. It's because of the ac... JOEL SLEMROD TIM GRIFFIN CRAIG GROESCHEL To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and famil... MIKE HUCKABEE We've gone through rounds of tax cutting and rounds of tax increases in modern U.S. history. We ... AUSTAN GOOLSBEE GROVER NORQUIST RUSSELL B. LONG DAVID CAMERON JOE BIDEN NIGEL LAWSON BARACK OBAMA CLARENCE DARROW ART BUCHWALD BILL MOYERS It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There ar... DAVID PLOUFFE I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A F... RALPH HALL ALEX HONNOLD JAMES TAYLOR JACK KINGSTON First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy t... JOHN S. WATSON CARRIE RYAN It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts. KEN JENNINGS JEFFREY R. IMMELT Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I... ERSKINE BOWLES 'Mars et Avril' is a science fiction film. It's set in Montreal some 50 years in the fut... MARTIN VILLENEUVE Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put f... DAN WEBSTER LARRY J. SABATO America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be... P. J. O'ROURKE BILL GATES Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system ... STEVE WALLACE RYAN GOSLING VAL KILMER BOB BECKEL BOB BARR The tax system is broken, and any kind of reform will involve winners and losers. LEN BURMAN BILL SIENKIEWICZ ALLEN WEST The effort to reform the tax code is noble in its purpose but it requires political willpower, JOHN SNOW In America, we have a two-party system, and the American Constitution is a piece of brilliance, but ... JAMIE DIMON We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take... WU YI CHRIS GABRIELI KRISTEN STEWART We see that the inflation rate is going down, so that there is a chance that tax reform with its eno... HANS EICHEL To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fai... BILL HASLAM
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I don't want to see the dollar strong because the rest of the world is crumbling. I would like t... DAVID MALPASS The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit st... DAVID MALPASS The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it h... DAVID MALPASS Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little p... DAVID MALPASS Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our... DAVID MALPASS For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that ... DAVID MALPASS The tenth amendment said the federal government is supposed to only have powers that were explicitly... DAVID MALPASS While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses i... DAVID MALPASS The world is constantly in a race to the top, in terms of there's a limited amount of capital an... DAVID MALPASS I'll put it this way. We're surviving and we hope the voles aren't. DAVID MALPASS We're not expecting a panicky financial market meltdown or much further dollar weakness. DAVID MALPASS I think there's still just a long grinding process ahead of Brazil, as they try to shake through thi... DAVID MALPASS Earnings of corporations are going to be under more and more pressure. DAVID MALPASS What you have been seeing over the last year is the policy of Jiang Zemin, not Deng Xiaoping. DAVID MALPASS China is handling this in its normal conservative way. DAVID MALPASS The trade deficit is much more responsive to the growth and consumption differential than to exchang... DAVID MALPASS It is more important what the jobs report shows in December and January -- that will affect how many... DAVID MALPASS The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and in... DAVID MALPASS Already we're seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and c... DAVID MALPASS If stocks double but the dollar loses half its value, who beyond Wall Street are the winners and los... DAVID MALPASS People's jobs are the biggest asset that they have. The net present value of your job is worth m... DAVID MALPASS To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up t... DAVID MALPASS My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ... DAVID DAVID KATZMAN LARRY DAVID DAVID HAREWOOD DAVID HAREWOOD In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ... DAVID COVERDALE George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo... DAVID LANGE DAVID LYNCH Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a... 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DAVID HARSANYI Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end ... DAVID HEWSON Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds... DAVID HANSON DAVID SEDARIS College is a magic time. Yes, you're young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college e... DAVID SZE DAVID MAMET DAVID LACHAPELLE Gribenes have been referred to as Jewish popcorn or kosher pork rinds. It's basically chicken sk... DAVID SAX Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two wh... DAVID EINHORN I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being... DAVID EINHORN During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first pr... DAVID EINHORN I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of g... DAVID EINHORN I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work. DAVID EINHORN My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. Wh... DAVID EINHORN There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table. DAVID EINHORN On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughn... DAVID EINHORN Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and yo... DAVID EINHORN DAVID CRYSTAL LARRY DAVID Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one coun... DAVID HILBERT Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpe... DAVID MIXNER If you're a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to ... 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Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's no... 
Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of... 
I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined ... 
If you have to change the law to get more money, that's a tax increase, and Americans for Tax Re... 
In 2010 the U.S. will have a payroll tax rate increase, an estate tax increase, and income tax incre... 
Foreign investors like decisiveness; they like clarity. There isn't any confusion about Ireland&... 
According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in... 
The total funding of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the U.S. is 0.0003 perce... 
We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simpl... 
Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid... 
To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task. 
Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in pr... 
Balance the federal budget now, not 15 years from now, not 20 years from now, but now. And throw out... 
Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.' 
There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not... 
Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform. 
Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus... 
Our best days are in front of us. We can reform those entitlements, we can change that corporate tax... 
A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con. 
I supported Obama because of his relationships. A lot of the things he believes in, you would say th... 
Virginia 's tax system needs to be fixed. The time to act is now. Do not send me any more studie... 
The medical device tax repeal is the only proposal that had the most bipartisan votes coming out of ... 
It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experien... 
The key to revenue growth is tax reform that closes loopholes and that is pro-growth. Then with a gr... 
As I make my way through, I feel okayness reaching through me.
The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 1... 
Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut h... 
The position is clear - there is no ambiguity in Sinn Fein's position. We, along with all the ot... 
Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens i... 
I believe our health care system is in drastic need of innovative, patient-centered reforms that enc... 
More important, it's because God is our only true source of life. 
I am very proud to have kept my commitment to introduce the married couples' tax allowance. I th... 
No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their ta... 
God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own... 
I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to p... 
The 'single tax' is so simple, so fundamental, and so easy to carry into effect that I have no doubt... 
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on thin... 
America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatiz... 
Yosemite has the most impressive and accessible granite big walls in the world. The rock is amazing.... 
Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place ... 
I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration'... 
What matters is what we do with the life we have. 
I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else h... 
I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third run... 
Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position. 
I loved growing up in Canada. It's a great place to grow up because - well, at least where I gre... 
One out of 100 citizens of the U.S. is going to prison, and it's not that the system is making c... 
The hardest-hit taxpayers in our disgraceful tax system are those folks who pack Trump's rallies... 
The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-s... 
It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the... 
I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporat... 
An actual understanding of our economy is that our economy most depends on our rate of innovation...... 
Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for ... 
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... 
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... 
Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world.... 
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k... 
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. 
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar... 
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik... 
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i... 
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th... 
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. 
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The... 
I always go for simplicity. 
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth... 
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood... 
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i... 
People use irony as a defense mechanism. 
I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll. 
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ... 
I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. 
I've had an awful lot of good fortune. 
Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is. 
You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old. 
We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates internat... 
The law always limits every power it gives. 
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe... 
Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination. 
False modesty can be worse than arrogance. 
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. 
If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve. 
What I value most in my friends is loyalty. 
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea ... 
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ... 
I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to... 
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in... 
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my fi... 
The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. T... 
When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the street... 