Quotes of: Raising-taxes Keyword

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Ronald Reagan

With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren.

Doc Hastings

If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.

Bill Gates

There are some tax expenditures that are there for very obvious and very important and very good policy reasons. Whether it's the charitable deduction or the deduction for homes, it's not a loophole.

Chuck Schumer

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

Michael Bloomberg

It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.

Chuck Feeney

You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.

Rick Santorum

I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

Larry J. Sabato

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

George Voinovich

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

Thomas Sowell

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted.

George Sutherland

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

Jesus Christ

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Judith Viorst

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

Campbell Newman

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

Christina Romer

We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

Iqbal Quadir

Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.

Bob Holden

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

Carol Moseley Braun

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

Jim Ramstad

Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction.

Joshua A. Tucker

For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.

David Malpass