Quotes About Economics

Actually, I'm a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform.

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.

Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

Ireland never lacked the capacity to feed its people. During the entire 'great famine,' the island continued to produce massive amounts of beef and grain. The Irish just couldn't afford to buy any of it due to the enforcement of rack-renting, high taxation, and suppression of manufactures.

My view is that taxation ought to be based upon ability to pay.

We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes.

We have always looked at taxes as a cost, just as any other cost that comes with doing business.

I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

Some taxes are really dumb.

There are going to be no income taxes and no wealth taxes.

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

From an emotional standpoint it's very easy to say don't raise taxes, and no one wants to raise taxes.

You don't boost growth by cutting taxes, you do that by giving money to people.

If you raise taxes on something, you discourage that activity.

The public hasn't learned that businesses don't pay taxes: only people do. They're confused, and this makes an adviser's job all the harder.