Quotes About Policy

The easy way out is to increase taxes.

In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A 'good' consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments.

You raise taxes during an economic crisis time, as we did in - back in the time of Herbert Hoover, you send the country into a depression.

Our first priority is to cut taxes.

I believe we now have a glorious opportunity: we can pass our laws and set our taxes entirely according to the needs of the U.K. economy.

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden... something of which I am not proud.

We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze on property taxes.

There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

We have proven that conservative principles work: less taxes, less government, and more freedom.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

We're looking to make sure things are fair, and we're always looking at ways to lower taxes for the middle class and raise them on the wealthiest one per cent.

People listen to me, and they hear about a government they want, a government... that will cut spending, cut taxes, that will focus on private-sector job creation.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

Nothing could be more regressive than carbon taxes.

There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds.

I love talking about taxes.

Our families are overburdened with taxes.

Government needs to get out of the way, focus more on affordability, manage taxes properly so we get the services we expect.

I just simply can't support having my constituents pay more taxes and not receive more benefits for their tax payments.

I'm a Conservative. I don't believe there should be too many rules. There should be lower taxes.

We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.