Quotes About Policy

A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.

I'm anti-tax, but I'm pro-carbon tax.

We shall tax and tax, and spend and spend, and elect and elect.

And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let's give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut.

I do see great opportunity to make reforms to our tax code, making it simpler, fairer and removing corporate loopholes.

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

If the carbon tax really was about saving the world, we would presume the largest industrial emitters of carbon would have to pay it.

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

Don't tax more than you have to.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.

You have got to clear up that corporation tax in the modern way has had its day as a major source of revenue, and we have got to find a new system.

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

A gas tax could be one important element of an integrated energy policy.

Tax what you burn not what you earn.

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.

What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?

Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!