Quotes About Finance

I'm not going to raise taxes.

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.

Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.

I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.

When, as an individual, you are not paying taxes, it is evasion. As a corporate, it is legal shrewdness or tax engineering.

I have been very aggressively campaigning on Kansas needs to cut its taxes.

I'm a Conservative who believes in lower taxes. They lead to a more enterprising economy. But I'm not somebody who believes you can fund lower taxes by borrowing more money.

A tax system is important because of what it can pay for, but also for how it works. When we pay taxes, we expect something back from the state; it strengthens the relationship and accountability between us and our governments. It also pays for what private finance shouldn't: our needs for healthcare, education and social security.

Raising taxes does nothing to allow the economy to recover.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

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.

If you raise taxes on something, you discourage that activity.

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

One in four corporations doesn't pay any taxes.

The easy way out is to increase taxes.

Our first priority is to cut taxes.

I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

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.

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.