Quotes About Policy

I do believe that we need to lower taxes on our hard working Iowans immediately.

Higher taxes kill jobs. Regulations kill jobs.

There are corporations in this nation, some of the biggest corporations in this nation, who do not pay taxes.

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

It's a lethal thing to suddenly raise taxes.

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

And I will repeat today what I have said throughout this campaign. I will not raise taxes on the middle class. I will give you tax relief to help ease these burdens.

The Netherlands has been severely hit by the debt crisis, and the solution is to lower taxes, get government finances in order, and make room for investment.

Hillary - at the end of the day, isn't that going to be about bigger government? Isn't that going to be about more taxes?

Taxes are just too high - that's obviously a priority.

Let's be clear: raising taxes during a very slow recovery is likely to lead to another recession, and it will do absolutely nothing to balance the budget.

You can raise taxes on the rich in America! We should raise taxes on the rich in America. But we can't do that in Rhode Island.

I don't want to be partisan here. But please, tell me how you get out of a business recession by raising business taxes and regulations?

We want to cut the corporate taxes, which will bring back growth.

Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and certain when a majority of wage-earners pay no income taxes but a majority of citizens receive federal benefits?

I don't rule out raising some taxes into the future.

I'm paying more taxes inside my company and personally than I'll ever receive from Congress.

There's nothing wrong with paying taxes; they should be paid in proportion to how rich you are. This idea that you're going to get better growth by cutting taxes at the top has no historical justification. And it's certainly not an argument in favor of capitalism.

Private monopolies run by special interests should not get to raise taxes and set regulatory policy for the United States.

We're going to cut corporate taxes, which will bring huge amounts of jobs back to the United States.

Taxes are never popular.

Arthur Laffer's idea, that lowering taxes could increase revenues, was logically correct. If tax rates are high enough, then people will go to such lengths to avoid them that cutting taxes can increase revenues. What he was wrong about was in thinking that income tax rates were already so high in the 1970s that cutting them would raise revenues.

If you raise taxes on the rich, you don't raise much money. I mean, this is one of the things that the U.S. is doing, but it's doing it for political reasons, not for financial reasons.

The biggest reason we know Justin Trudeau will raise taxes is because his never-ending deficits will force him to.