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Tax Quotes



"A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."


"I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that."


"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."


"Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas."


"Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases."


"The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway."


"1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS."


"Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round."


"Tax breaks can serve a vital role in keeping and bringing jobs to our state; however, without accountability, they are little more than loopholes at taxpayers' expense."


"Tax cuts are an investment in working families."


"Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring."


"The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations."


"I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business."



"We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible."


"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."


"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."


"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?"


"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."


"Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings."


"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."


"I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for."


"We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones."
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