Quotes About Government

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.

The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.

Tax cuts are one of many ways to stimulate the economy. Building infrastructure, for example, is another.

The Trump tax cuts mean business.

In 2010 the U.S. will have a payroll tax rate increase, an estate tax increase, and income tax increases. There's also a tax increase coming in 2010 on carried interest. This rate will rise from its current level of 15 percent to 35 percent, and then it will rise again in 2011.

What you do by having an income tax rate reduction across the board, you really provide great incentives for people to work, produce, and increase output. So I would support a carbon tax in replacement for a progressive income tax.

Lowering the middle-class tax rate... will likely lower work efforts and increase government dependence.

Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.

President Obama always gives lip service to lowering the corporate tax rate, but he never specifies a particular rate or an overall plan.

Corporate tax rate cut is a big decision and giving tax exemption of up to Rs 1.45 lakh crore in a year is not a small thing, it is a big deal.

We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others.

Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.

I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.

I don't support any increase in income tax rates.

The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenues: the arithmetic effect and the economic effect.

The linkage between tax rates and public services is, if not non-existent, negative.

Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

We need to level the playing field so that people who buy insurance individually at the same tax rates as those who buy it than get it through work. We need to be able to let people to shop across state lines for better deals with insurance that works for them and their family, not something the government says they have to have.

We need to lower marginal tax rates and increase investment.

If we think that high marginal tax rates are bad because they distort incentives, the same is then true for tax subsidies.

Cuts in tax rates on individual and company income nearly always produce more revenue, not less.