Quotes About Government

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.

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.

When I started to pay income tax, I was 50 years old.

Don't tax more than you have to.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.

On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.

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.

Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.

Whatever you tax, you get less of.

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

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.

Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!

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.

The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.

At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

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.

The childcare tax credit makes some sense.

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