The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.
And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.
The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
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.
No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.
Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's not that big of a generator of income, and it's a double tax. Get rid of it, and you would have an explosion of hiring.
Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.
I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A Fair Tax would replace all federal taxes on personal and corporate income with a single national tax on retail sales, while a Flat Tax would apply the ...
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas...
Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.
In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
I got five kids - I claim three for income tax purposes.
The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.
Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.
1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
