What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.
In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.
Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.
High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks.
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
We've got a lot of work to do: not only on education, but on the economy, on our tax code, and on reducing our crushing debt.
In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.
Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.
Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.
People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.
Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.
There are things in life that don't come to me naturally, and social media and the Internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking!
My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don't owe you a penny.
I live in Vermont, and we don't have a tax incentive there, and therefore, we don't have professional crew there.
I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.
One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use.
The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.
