Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.
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.
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
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.
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.
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.
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
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.
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.
I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.
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.
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.
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.
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.
Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.
We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.
I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy.
Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings.
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
