Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital. – Lars Feld
The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand. – Jack Markell
Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem. – Mo Ibrahim
Mark Meadows will fight for what’s right, because he understands that higher taxes and more regulations are not the way to solve our country’s problems. – Jeff Duncan
Everybody gets ticked off about GE paying no taxes. Look, we have a complicated, convoluted tax system. And only big corporations and wealthy individuals like Warren Buffett can take advantage of it. We need to simplify and flatten the code, get rid of all the loopholes. – Joe Walsh
I think the rich should pay more in taxes – I agree with that 100 percent – but everybody should feel the pain a little bit. – John Catsimatidis
High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks. – Martin Seligman
My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt. – Joseph M. Kyrillos
The U.K. is already disadvantaged on the wholesale cost of energy, and then it puts taxes on it. Anybody who’s an energy user is just going to disappear. – Jim Ratcliffe
Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They’re not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open. – Michael Moore
I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percent; that’s to say, add on other taxes like VAT to the income tax. – James Mirrlees
As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes. – Luis Gutierrez
In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let’s rein in how much the state borrows. – Larry Hogan
Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions. – John Edward Redmond
Unfortunately, President Obama’s failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it. – Marco Rubio
I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent. – Joe Walsh
We spend millions of dollars every year just for the right to pay our taxes, but once again, do we really need to do that? Why don’t we simplify it? And I’ve certainly looked at fair tax, I’ve looked at flat tax, and if I get to the U.S. Senate, I’d like to review that. – John Raese
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending. – Mike Pence
Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis. – Michael Bloomberg
It’s a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It’s not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff. – Lewis Black
The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead – higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery. – Karl Rove
And that does concern me, because we’re not getting enough back for our taxes that we’re paying. I think we really have to look at the whole sort of area. – Rex Hunt
More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments. – Robert Orben
Instead of focusing on growing jobs and reigniting our economy, President Obama focused on growing government and tried to remake the United States into the image of the debt-laden countries of Europe. His approach has been more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes. – Rob Portman
There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds. – Peter Hargreaves
