Quotes About Policy

My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives.

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

Government should concentrate on building up infrastructure and skill development. Simplification of taxation is another important area.

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

Yeah, I am in favor of migration. But I am also in favor of education. But at the same time, I am in favor of progressive taxation. I think we need all of this. I think we don't have to choose one.

We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.

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

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.

We are looking at ways to shift the balance of taxation away from work and on to the practices that are destroying the environment on which a healthy economy depends.

We need to stop illegal immigration. We need to put people back to work. We need to cut taxes.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

The biggest source of getting the country to a balanced budget is not by raising taxes or by cutting spending. It's by encouraging the growth of the economy.

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

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.

Well, I think lower taxes and less regulation would actually promote growth.

Every time the Fed implements 'quantitative easing,' a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

I think for some, the very wealthiest among us, for corporations, taxes are too low.

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

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey.

Taxes can set the level of activity around which the economy fluctuates, but they have very little effect on the fluctuations themselves.

Some taxes are really dumb.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.