Quotes About Economy

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.

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

Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.

One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

The easy way out is to increase taxes.

Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in 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.

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.

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.

If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.

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.

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

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

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.

The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth 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.