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"If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase."
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"Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas."
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Personal Development
"It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?"
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Personal Development
"If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much."
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Personal Development
"Tax cuts are an investment in working families."
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Personal Development
"The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor."
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Personal Development
"We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones."
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Personal Development
"I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year."
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Personal Development
"America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"The level of taxation is driven by spending. Less spending leads to lower taxes."
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"In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age."
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"Public education is an investment in our future."
Education
"Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home."
Home
"Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people."
Government
"The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home."
Home
"The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs."
Power
"If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase."
Tax
"In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party."
Government
"The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent."
Money
"The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past."
Habit
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