Many have criticized a federal carbon tax, saying that it would increase energy costs. Some continue to oppose it even when that revenue would be used to reduce other taxes in what’s known as a tax swap. – John Delaney
A lack of reform – particularly in international tax – has hurt our ability to compete in a global economy by keeping U.S. corporate cash overseas and reducing domestic investment, slowing economic growth. – John Delaney
Republicans must stop putting tax increases on the fiscal cliff negotiating table and start demanding that Democrats put forth serious proposals to reduce spending. – John Fleming
The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it’s failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005. – Jim Sensenbrenner
You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power. – John Redwood
The wind industry has made major strides over the past two decades, and they have proven their industry to be efficient and self-sustainable. There is no need for the taxpayer to continue to subsidize a wind start-up tax credit. – James Lankford
We need to cut the capital gains tax; we need to take regulations off the backs of business and allow banks to once again lend. – John Fleming
The unhappy irony is that, while ‘Glee’ is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues. – James Wolcott
The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spending cuts rather than tax increases. – John Fleming
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. – Jonathan Dimbleby
Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security. – J. D. Hayworth
The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain’s, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes. – John Redwood
Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts. – Jeb Bush
I released 34 years of tax returns and 300,000 e-mails in my government record. To get the information from Hillary Clinton, you need to get a subpoena from the FBI. – Jeb Bush
No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama’s plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it’s their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax. – Joe Biden
Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission… I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help. – Joe Eszterhas
I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn’t mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought to get rid of a bunch of those loopholes. – John Kasich
I don’t believe we need the government’s help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend. – Jesse Ventura
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. – Benjamin Disraeli
The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed. – Alan Keyes
The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud. – Barton Gellman
As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time. All these people in Greece who are trying to escape tax. – Christine Lagarde
Your tax returns on a yearly basis don’t tell you what you’re worth. What they show is what your income is. – Corey Lewandowski
Reagan didn’t put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system. – Alan K. Simpson
The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a ‘fairness’ issue, is the typical ‘wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing’ ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after their name. It is a tax increase in either case. – Bob Barr