The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a...
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.
Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.
The lesson for the next U.S. president: Raise the taxes on fuel. A lot.
When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.
If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.
Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.
The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.
The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.
I think the ethos for Gov. Romney is to use a whole variety of policies, of which tax policy is one, to try to raise the rate of growth. We've had a recovery from the financial crisis that would be well below what one might normally expect for a reco...
The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every electi...
Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.
I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners, is a recipe for economic growth.
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.
If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.
Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger cut teacher's salaries and parks and libraries rather than raise taxes for the many California millionaires and billionaires.
I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.
In Washington, I will never vote to raise taxes, I will fight to repeal healthcare reform, and I will work to balance the budget.
I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to ...
