Quotes About Economy

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

If the carbon tax really was about saving the world, we would presume the largest industrial emitters of carbon would have to pay it.

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

If we want a stronger, cleaner, and fairer world economy, we need to deal with the controversial areas of globalisation, such as tax havens.

We all know what the problems are: it's tax and spend. One party will tax and spend, the other party won't tax but will spend. It's both of them together.

Don't tax more than you have to.

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

You have got to clear up that corporation tax in the modern way has had its day as a major source of revenue, and we have got to find a new system.

A gas tax could be one important element of an integrated energy policy.

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

The role of government is to tax the people to the least extent possible while still taxing them enough to cover the basic needs for government.

Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.

We tax our companies more than any other country in the world, so we really are not really encouraging businesses to grow and expand, and over time, that's going to make it so that we diminish our role in the global economy.

Part of what the carbon tax does is make Canada less competitive.

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax.

We in Scotland need fiscal responsibility. Quite simply, we need to be responsible for what we raise in tax and what we spend in tax.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.

If we lower the payroll tax, will Americans let us raise it again? I don't think so.

Most economies have a fair amount of tax evasion, depending on how their data systems are.