Quotes: Taxes

Higher income taxes are a razor guillotine poised to descend on the bare neck of prosperity.

Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.

Yes. I don’t think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.

The U.S. states that allow for citizens’ initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don’t. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.

The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.

Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine’s Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

On Capitol Hill, House Republicans have been doing our part. We’ve been hard at work developing policies that will help empower all Americans. We’re beginning to see results. We reduced taxes for everyone.

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.