Payroll Tax Quotes

#1. More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

Alex Tabarrok

#2. I have always maintained that if a program is to be successful, it must ... be voluntary ... based on need and must not be financed through a payroll tax.

Thruston Ballard Morton

#3. I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to accelerate depreciation so they would have an incentive to buy now rather than defer. I would also give to the states $40 billion of relief.

Bob Graham

#4. Ive never supported a payroll tax.

David Dewhurst

#5. Make no mistake, if the payroll-tax cut is extended, it will become permanent. Social Security will become another welfare program as the tie between what someone pays and what they receive gets broken.

Ari Fleischer

#6. The challenge for any government is how do you do two things at the same time. How do you put money forward for things like the payroll tax holiday, for things like getting a jump-start on infrastructure, for building schools, and make the decisions for long-term deficit reduction.

Jacob Lew

#7. It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty.

James Roosevelt

#8. The payroll tax increase was destructive financially, it took what was a close call and made it a bad call,

Mike McGavick

#9. I am not a great fan of the payroll tax holiday because I'm nervous about what it does to the future of Social Security.

Bernie Sanders

#10. I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

David Dewhurst

#11. I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

Barack Obama

#12. The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it - as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag by almost half.

Mark Zandi

#13. It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.

Campbell Newman

#14. The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

Mark Zandi

#15. The payroll tax is affecting sales. It's causing sales declines.

Fred DeLuca

#16. I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.

Timothy Noah

#17. In 2010 the U.S. will have a payroll tax rate increase, an estate tax increase, and income tax increases. There's also a tax increase coming in 2010 on carried interest. This rate will rise from its current level of 15 percent to 35 percent, and then it will rise again in 2011.

Arthur Laffer

#18. Did folks know that the tax to fund the program [Social Security] only hits salaries up to $110,000? That means that if you make a million bucks, about 90% of your salary is tax free when it comes to the payroll tax that funds Soc Sec. That ain't right.

Jared Bernstein

#19. I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

Jacob Lew

#20. I think people's soul - I think you can kind of see it - there's what they say and there's what they do.

Matt Barr

#21. ...shame can do things to people's minds. It warps them from the truth, allowing them only to see what they want to see.

Liz Durano

#22. While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues ... In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.

Daymond John

#23. I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.

Adam Michnik

#24. All he knows is that something stepped in front of him, blocking his way, until in time he gave up on things, he gave up studying engineering and he gave up on the idea of traveling. He sat down in his life. And there he remained.

Mitch Albom

#25. It was always disconcerting to discover that you shared opinions with someone you had no respect for.

Leah Cypess

#26. However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.

Alex Campbell

#27. The emergence of AIDS, Ebola, and any number of other rain-forest agents appears to be a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere.

Richard Preston

#28. Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

Mahatma Gandhi

#29. With a clear vision you will arrive at your define-destination.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. 3The voice of the Eternal echoes over the great waters; God's magnificence roars like thunder. The Eternal's presence hovers over all the waters. 4His voice explodes in great power over the earth. His voice is both regal and grand.

Anonymous

#31. I sit up talking till daybreak with the young people and we have almost Athenian evenings, Athenian, I mean, only in their intellectual subtlety and refinement.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#32. Social Security is a widely popular program because the individual has been deceived by the Statist to believe that the government has been prudently and diligently managing his accumulated pension investment in his Social Security account, which he presumes to be funded by his own payroll taxes.

Mark Levin

#33. The strength of ideas rests on their relationship to reality.

Ilana Mercer