Every time the Fed implements ‚quantitative easing,‘ a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it’s the right thing to do. It’s economics 101, elementary stuff.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

I didn’t pay my taxes for years.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

That’s what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It’s about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we’ll still have coverage.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

The nuclear approach I’m involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There’s a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true – many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.

If I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Deflation isn’t good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. ‚Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that’s mass production.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment – my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn’t financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

The dollar has lost over 90 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

I believe – we all pay taxes. I’m happy to pay it, but I hate to have it abused, money wasted, no accountability. That’s going to bother you.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

In the middle of a recession, where we’re just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.