Quotes About Policy

The role of government is to tax the people to the least extent possible while still taxing them enough to cover the basic needs for government.

Crucially, African governments must ensure they prioritize the eradication of tax evasion and tax avoidance.

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

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.

We tax our companies more than any other country in the world, so we really are not really encouraging businesses to grow and expand, and over time, that's going to make it so that we diminish our role in the global economy.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

Part of what the carbon tax does is make Canada less competitive.

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat tax?

It is my belief that tax credits only go to people who are making money, and they generally keep it.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.

If we lower the payroll tax, will Americans let us raise it again? I don't think so.

That darn luxury tax is pretty painful.

Republicans think tax filing should be easier for you, not just the well-connected.

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

If inheritance tax were to be introduced for the monarch, it would mean slowly slicing away the royal assets.

Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.

I think a flat tax has merit. Anything would be better than the current tax code.

Canadians didn't vote for a carbon tax. Justin Trudeau campaigned, promised that he wouldn't create a carbon tax.

I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.