Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.
Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.
Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax.
My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.
In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.
Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for capital gains taxes and disregard for contracts.
And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.
We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers.
We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.
The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.
Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.
We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.
Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.
I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.
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