Quotes About Policy

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

High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks.

I'm not going to raise taxes.

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

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.

Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

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

I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.

I have been very aggressively campaigning on Kansas needs to cut its taxes.

I'm a Conservative who believes in lower taxes. They lead to a more enterprising economy. But I'm not somebody who believes you can fund lower taxes by borrowing more money.

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

The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.

More people working and paying taxes reduces government expenditures and helps us move a little closer to balance.

If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?

Raising taxes does nothing to allow the economy to recover.

I am a believer in smaller government, limited government, less regulation, less taxes, because I think to have more of those things, we suffocate the entrepreneurial spirit of this nation.

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.

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.

Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.