Quotes About Policy

The lesson for the next U.S. president: Raise the taxes on fuel. A lot.

We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that? Why don't we simplify it? And I've certainly looked at fair tax, I've looked at flat tax, and if I get to the U.S. Senate, I'd like to review that.

For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent with the mainstream of the Republican Party in the United States and with many Democrats as well.

I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.

Higher taxes still does not create prosperity for all. And, more government still does not grow jobs.

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged. It's one of those taxes that most clearly damages economic growth and jobs.

We need a smaller, leaner Washington. It won't happen if we raise taxes without any coinciding reform and serious slashing of spending.

My goal in getting rid of tax loopholes is not to raise taxes. Our problem in Washington, D.C. is not a revenue problem, it is a spending problem.

After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.

Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.

I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.

I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.

Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set.

My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.

We've created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we're not growing fast, income is not growing.

What I want to do is make certain that no one's taxes go up. Let's look at cleaning up the tax code.

We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.

People making $1 million a year are not going to do anything different if they pay more taxes.

Fortunately, good policy, true principles, and effective leadership work whenever they are tried. When we reduce government, balance budgets, and keep taxes as low as possible, states respond in a positive way.