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Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted for it. You didn't have a real partisan issue on those times that it was used.
Tom Coburn
You
Welfare
Half
Those
Reconciliation
Voted
Democratic
Partisan
Welfare Reform
Democrats
Real
Issue
Times
Reform
Senators
Tax
Happened
Tax Cuts
Bush
Bush Tax Cuts
Cuts
Used
Twelve
I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.
Tom Cole
People
Long
Believe
Jobs
Bad
Rates
Costs
Long-Term
Term
Economy
Most
Understand
Revenue
Tax
Tax Rates
Really
Actually
Raising
Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.
Tom Daschle
Mistake
Our
Laws
Cheat
Cheaters
Make
Make No Mistake
Tax
IRS
Us
Enforce
Should
Letter
I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.
Tom Golisano
Happy
Money
Too Much
Increase
Too
State
Percent
Percent Increase
Rate
Been
Lot
Just
Tax
Happened
Tax Rate
Taxes
Much
Paying
Income
Thing
Last
In New York, the average total state and local tax burden is $5,260 for every man, woman and child. That's by far the highest in the country.
Tom Golisano
Man
Woman
Burden
Country
Every
State
Local
Total
Highest
New
Child
York
New York
Tax
Tax Burden
Far
Average
Every Man
I've traveled the country advocating for the Fair Tax, along with Herman Cain, Neal Boortz, and John Linder.
Tom Graves
Country
John
Along
Fair
Advocating
Tax
Traveled
I think in 2012 one of the primary issues that will get a lot of discussion will be comprehensive tax reform.
Tom Reed
Will
Think
Comprehensive
Primary
Issues
Lot
Reform
Discussion
Get
Tax
Tax Reform
As president, Trump's economic proposals will bend our very economy and tax system to his purposes.
Tom Steyer
Will
Bend
President
Our
System
Economic
Purposes
Proposals
Economy
His
Trump
Very
Tax
Tax System
Hard-working families in Wisconsin deserve a tax cut. But you also deserve for it to be done responsibly and to make sure we know how we're going to pay for it in the future.
Tony Evers
Future
You
Pay
Responsibly
Wisconsin
Know
Also
Make
Sure
How
Families
Done
Going
Tax
Tax Cut
Cut
Hard-Working
Deserve
The E-government cabinet, E-health services, online voting, online pre-filled tax returns, e-mobile parking, are all examples of Estonian innovation, but far more importantly, they are examples of the transformative power of intensive and extensive use of Information Technology in the public sector.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Technology
Innovation
Voting
Power
Sector
Examples
Online
More
Parking
Cabinet
Returns
Importantly
Intensive
Tax
Information
Information Technology
Transformative
Public
Tax Returns
Far
Use
Public Sector
Services
Extensive
People are not really interested in what politicians talk about, but what they are really interested in is how their hard-earned tax money is spent.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
People
Money
Politicians
Spent
About
Talk
How
Tax
Tax Money
Interested
Really
The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up.
Tucker Carlson
Politics
Minority
Sacrifice
Power
Progressive
Easier
Unpopular
Steadily
More
Majority
Force
Always
Becoming
Understands
Surprise
Up
Than
Tax
Anyone
Tax Code
Which
Pony
Ask
Who
Code
All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.
Victor Ponta
Politicians
Down
Resources
Spending
Finances
Favor
Both
Rationalize
Invest
Wisely
Sound
Just
Achieved
Tax
Sensible
Public
Available
Evasion
Growth
There are only two reasons to compile list of gun owners: to tax them or to take them.
Wayne LaPierre
Gun
Compile
Only
Take
List
Owners
Tax
Them
Reasons
Two
There is regressivity built into the tax code by virtue of its complexity.
Wendy Long
Virtue
Complexity
Built
Tax
Tax Code
Code
I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.
Wesley Snipes
Charged
Never
Been
Tax
Evasion
A tax cut would most certainly be my first choice rather than an increase in federal spending. Those who advocate that fail to see that spending not only continues in subsequent years, but it grows and grows.
William E. Simon
First
Increase
Spending
Those
Would
See
Rather
Only
Federal
Federal Spending
Fail
Most
Advocate
Years
Than
Subsequent
Tax
Tax Cut
Cut
Choice
Certainly
Who
Grows
Producers shoot movies where the tax incentives are.
William Fichtner
Shoot
Tax
Where
Movies
Producers
Incentives
Oxfam believes that any global talks to reform tax rules must include all countries, including the poorest.
Winnie Byanyima
Rules
Must
Countries
Global
Talks
Reform
Any
Oxfam
Tax
Poorest
Include
Including
Believes
Tax abuse is a scourge on our global community, but especially for Africa.
Winnie Byanyima
Community
Our
Abuse
Global
Scourge
Africa
Tax
African countries lose the most from tax dodging. African governments must, therefore, do more to push for a full reform of the global tax system and demand action from countries, such as the U.K., whose financial centres sit at the heart of the global network of tax havens.
Winnie Byanyima
Heart
Financial
Lose
Sit
Action
System
Must
Haven
More
Network
Push
Demand
Countries
Global
Most
Dodging
Governments
Reform
African
Tax
Tax System
Full
Therefore
Whose
We have international organizations for health, trade, and football - even for coffee - but not tax. Why not?
Winnie Byanyima
Health
Coffee
Football
Trade
Tax
Organizations
International
Even
Why
Why Not
The people standing up most strongly for our democracies should be celebrated, not prosecuted - be it those countless human rights defenders who defend all our rights or the brave whistle-blowers who expose tax dodging.
Winnie Byanyima
Democracy
Rights
People
Human Rights
Our
Those
Strongly
Prosecuted
Countless
Most
Dodging
Up
Celebrated
Brave
Human
Tax
Should
Standing
Who
Standing Up
Expose
Defend
Defenders
Crucially, African governments must ensure they prioritize the eradication of tax evasion and tax avoidance.
Winnie Byanyima
Ensure
Must
Prioritize
Governments
African
Tax
Avoidance
Evasion
Ultimately, developing countries and groups like Oxfam want to see a new intergovernmental body on cooperation in tax matters under the auspices of the United Nations.
Winnie Byanyima
Matters
United Nations
See
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
New
Like
Ultimately
Nations
Oxfam
Tax
Want
Body
Groups
Cooperation
United
Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Government
Money
Example
Consists
Out
Counting
Calculation
For Example
Most
Tasks
Wallet
Tax
Humans
Pull
Numbers
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