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We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simpl...
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ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't t...
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I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined ...
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MARK SANFORD![]()
If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We wo...
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Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it&...
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We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high sp...
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The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing ...
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ERIC CANTOR![]()
No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their ta...
JOE BIDEN There's a certain political unattractiveness to essentially providing tax breaks at the corporate le...
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The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
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Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus...
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER![]()
We know that inflation distorts economic behavior. In the 1970s, a combination of high tax rates and...
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The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenu...
ARTHUR LAFFER![]()
What you do by having an income tax rate reduction across the board, you really provide great incent...
ARTHUR LAFFER The income tax is a slave tax,
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
ALBERT EINSTEIN![]()
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
ALBERT EINSTEIN![]()
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax
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CRAIG COOPER![]()
Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when...
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In 2010 the U.S. will have a payroll tax rate increase, an estate tax increase, and income tax incre...
ARTHUR LAFFER![]()
Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's no...
GARY JOHNSON Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing ou...
MARK SANFORD Instead of cutting tax rates for the rich, we should focus on making the tax system simpler for ordi...
ANDREW LEIGH The only thing worse than paying income tax is not paying income tax
DONALD MACLEOD![]()
The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not onl...
BARNEY FRANK Strong revenue returns have increased chances of the scrapping of exchange controls, the further red...
MARTIN JANKELOWITZ I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percen...
JAMES MIRRLEES Oregon eliminated property and payroll factors in determining corporate income tax, which rewards ne...
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ROGER WICKER The time is right to look at things like our corporate tax rate itself, and specific areas of stimul...
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The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the a...
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Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in pr...
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BOB SCHARIN We will lower the tax burden on middle-class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair ...
, "PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST", 1992![]()
The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
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I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional,...
G. EDWARD GRIFFIN![]()
Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.
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CLINT STRETCH President Obama always gives lip service to lowering the corporate tax rate, but he never specifies ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW![]()
Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.
JOHN CORNYN In this country, we have partnerships, we have S corps, we have LLCs, we have a series of entities t...
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE I don't see any purpose in a gross receipts tax. It's inequitable. The best way to tax a business is...
MICHAEL GRANOF Individual income tax is due on April 15, filing and payment. The real property tax deadline is Febr...
ART ILAGAN What Governor Romney is proposing is an across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates for households, e...
GLENN HUBBARD![]()
There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.
WILL ROGERS![]()
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates wi...
MIKE PENCE Here's the question for my fellow Republicans: Do we want to be the first-ever GOP House majorit...
JOHN FLEMING She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING It is totally about tax cuts. Our current deficits are not the result of critical spending to help l...
SCOTT MCCOWN The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax wa...
ALAN KEYES Our broken tax code is one of the main reasons the United States lags behind when it comes to econom...
KEVIN BRADY In many ways, states attempting to shore up corporate tax collections are fighting a losing battle a...
CHRIS ATKINS Corporate tax reform should include not just large C-corps but also smaller business S-corps and LLC...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW![]()
All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the U...
THOMAS PIKETTY Our community sends a lot of income tax money to the State of Wisconsin.
COLIN BUTLER![]()
Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.
LORD THOMAS DEWAR Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.
THOMAS ROBERT DEWAR There is a direct correlation between the number of people employed at the paper mill and our income...
MATT ALLEN The whole property tax discussion is about reform ... moving the property tax system to an income ta...
DON HELLER The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions ...
STEVEN RATTNER![]()
God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own...
NIGEL LAWSON![]()
Sometimes, tax rate increases create the very problems that the spending is intended to cure. In oth...
ARTHUR LAFFER The proponents of estate tax repeal are fond of calling it the 'death tax'. It's not a death tax, it...
BILL FOSTER [And at a Capitol Hill news conference, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that huge tax cut...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
P. CHIDAMBARAM![]()
Under Ronald Reagan - who cut the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent - black income, busines...
LARRY ELDER Our fund is ideal for someone four to five years away from retirement and currently in a high-income...
ALLEN HIRSCH We're going to accept the 2005, and within the 2005 the Earned Income Tax Credit will be allowed in ...
ART ILAGAN![]()
I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporat...
ALLEN WEST Low-income Canadians benefit relatively little from these tax cuts, yet they may be hurt a great dea...
ELLEN RUSSELL![]()
Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of...
MARSHA BLACKBURN![]()
A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.
GEORGE W. BUSH Instead of the present ad hoc adjustments to the tax rate we ... call for government to provide grea...
IAN DAVIDSON![]()
There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
NAT KING COLE Making money is one thing, paying tax is another.
HABEEB AKANDE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I'm not thinking [the accelerated tax rate reductions] would have a huge impact. They always like to...
CINDY HOCKENBERRY Obviously, we welcome the handouts given by the minister, particularly as far as income tax is conce...
IAN DAVIDSON And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporat...
STEVE FORBES![]()
The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.
TODD TIAHRT![]()
Foreign investors like decisiveness; they like clarity. There isn't any confusion about Ireland&...
ENDA KENNY It's difficult to compete and keep businesses from moving to South Dakota when (that state's) proper...
CHARESE YANNEY
DAVID ROUZER The United States already has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.
SCOTT DESJARLAIS It's interesting that while we have one of the lowest income-tax rates in the area, the effective ra...
DAVE LINDIMORE The Panel's income tax reform plan would make some positive changes such as eliminating the double-t...
CHRIS EDWARDS If you were to look at Alaska simply with its corporate tax code compared to the rest of the United ...
SCOTT HODGE Research has shown that middle-income wage earners would benefit most from a large reduction in corp...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW I support both a Fair Tax and a Flat Tax plan that would dramatically streamline the tax system. A F...
RALPH HALL We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the incom...
ERNIE FLETCHER Every one of the best tax systems raises sufficient revenue without imposing at least one of the thr...
CURTIS DUBAY It's not coincidence that the U.S. is in last place in the world in terms of corporate tax rate....
DAVID MALPASS The truth is, our corporate income taxes are some of the highest in the world, and frankly, in my ju...
JIM JORDAN
We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simpl... HERMAN CAIN Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rate...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't t...
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE
I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined ... STEPHEN HARPER Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing our po...
MARK SANFORD
If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We wo... GARY JOHNSON
Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it&... GAIL COLLINS
We should be forced to give so many exemptions and concessions (inevitably to the benefit of high sp... NIGEL LAWSON
The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing ... BEN BERNANKE In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive ...
ERIC CANTOR
No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their ta... JOE BIDEN There's a certain political unattractiveness to essentially providing tax breaks at the corporate le...
DAVID PERRY
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. ALBERT EINSTEIN
Here's the truth. The proposed top rate of income tax is not 50 per cent. It is 50 per cent plus... ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
We know that inflation distorts economic behavior. In the 1970s, a combination of high tax rates and... NINA EASTON Obama and Clinton wrongly believe that the corporate income tax is a tax on the rich. The reality is...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenu... ARTHUR LAFFER
What you do by having an income tax rate reduction across the board, you really provide great incent... ARTHUR LAFFER The income tax is a slave tax,
ALAN KEYES
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ALBERT EINSTEIN
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ALBERT EINSTEIN
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax ALBERT EINSTEIN Actually we were trying to start the income tax season a little early. The income tax season is our ...
CRAIG COOPER
Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when... MIKE PENCE
In 2010 the U.S. will have a payroll tax rate increase, an estate tax increase, and income tax incre... ARTHUR LAFFER
Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's no... GARY JOHNSON Small businesses are the backbone of job creation in South Carolina, but we're not maximizing ou...
MARK SANFORD Instead of cutting tax rates for the rich, we should focus on making the tax system simpler for ordi...
ANDREW LEIGH The only thing worse than paying income tax is not paying income tax
DONALD MACLEOD
The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not onl... BARNEY FRANK Strong revenue returns have increased chances of the scrapping of exchange controls, the further red...
MARTIN JANKELOWITZ I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percen...
JAMES MIRRLEES Oregon eliminated property and payroll factors in determining corporate income tax, which rewards ne...
CAROLINE PECQUET
The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. ... HERMAN CAIN Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on...
ROGER WICKER The time is right to look at things like our corporate tax rate itself, and specific areas of stimul...
TREVOR HUGHES
The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the a... THOMAS SOWELL Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process...
DAVID HARSANYI
Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in pr... BERNIE SANDERS If you took the sales-tax deduction instead of the income-tax deduction when you itemized, then your...
BOB SCHARIN We will lower the tax burden on middle-class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair ...
, "PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST", 1992
The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. THOMAS DEWAR
I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional,... G. EDWARD GRIFFIN
Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth. PAUL RYAN My guess is the panel is playing with a couple of different ideas. One is some...reform of the curre...
CLINT STRETCH President Obama always gives lip service to lowering the corporate tax rate, but he never specifies ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform. JOHN CORNYN In this country, we have partnerships, we have S corps, we have LLCs, we have a series of entities t...
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE I don't see any purpose in a gross receipts tax. It's inequitable. The best way to tax a business is...
MICHAEL GRANOF Individual income tax is due on April 15, filing and payment. The real property tax deadline is Febr...
ART ILAGAN What Governor Romney is proposing is an across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates for households, e...
GLENN HUBBARD
There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income. WILL ROGERS
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates wi... MIKE PENCE Here's the question for my fellow Republicans: Do we want to be the first-ever GOP House majorit...
JOHN FLEMING She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING It is totally about tax cuts. Our current deficits are not the result of critical spending to help l...
SCOTT MCCOWN The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax wa...
ALAN KEYES Our broken tax code is one of the main reasons the United States lags behind when it comes to econom...
KEVIN BRADY In many ways, states attempting to shore up corporate tax collections are fighting a losing battle a...
CHRIS ATKINS Corporate tax reform should include not just large C-corps but also smaller business S-corps and LLC...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the U... THOMAS PIKETTY Our community sends a lot of income tax money to the State of Wisconsin.
COLIN BUTLER
Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax. LORD THOMAS DEWAR Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.
THOMAS ROBERT DEWAR There is a direct correlation between the number of people employed at the paper mill and our income...
MATT ALLEN The whole property tax discussion is about reform ... moving the property tax system to an income ta...
DON HELLER The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions ...
STEVEN RATTNER
God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own... NIGEL LAWSON
Sometimes, tax rate increases create the very problems that the spending is intended to cure. In oth... ARTHUR LAFFER The proponents of estate tax repeal are fond of calling it the 'death tax'. It's not a death tax, it...
BILL FOSTER [And at a Capitol Hill news conference, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that huge tax cut...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
P. CHIDAMBARAM
Under Ronald Reagan - who cut the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent - black income, busines... LARRY ELDER Our fund is ideal for someone four to five years away from retirement and currently in a high-income...
ALLEN HIRSCH We're going to accept the 2005, and within the 2005 the Earned Income Tax Credit will be allowed in ...
ART ILAGAN
I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporat... ALLEN WEST Low-income Canadians benefit relatively little from these tax cuts, yet they may be hurt a great dea...
ELLEN RUSSELL
Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of... MARSHA BLACKBURN
A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness. GEORGE W. BUSH Instead of the present ad hoc adjustments to the tax rate we ... call for government to provide grea...
IAN DAVIDSON
There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax! NAT KING COLE Making money is one thing, paying tax is another.
HABEEB AKANDE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I'm not thinking [the accelerated tax rate reductions] would have a huge impact. They always like to...
CINDY HOCKENBERRY Obviously, we welcome the handouts given by the minister, particularly as far as income tax is conce...
IAN DAVIDSON And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporat...
STEVE FORBES
The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth. TODD TIAHRT
Foreign investors like decisiveness; they like clarity. There isn't any confusion about Ireland&... ENDA KENNY It's difficult to compete and keep businesses from moving to South Dakota when (that state's) proper...
CHARESE YANNEY
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