Rex Hunt Quotes

I just simply can't support having my constituents pay more taxes and not receive more benefits for their tax payments.

To sell a new tax to the voters you have to be very specific about what it is being used for.

More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

My biggest objection to raising taxes is that it feeds the government addiction to spending money.

There's a lot of evidence you can sell people on tax increases if they think its an investment.

The American people want more from government than they are willing to pay for in taxes.

All of my political career, I've fought for the taxpayers.

For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.

We sincerely believed that we don't tax too little in Washington. We spend too much.

A huge segment of the country has always felt overtaxed. In 1938, when taxes were roughly 17% of income, a 'Fortune' survey found that nearly half of all Americans thought they paid too much relative to what they got in return.

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.

People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.

Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.

I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes.

As far as I'm concerned, the people who aren't paying taxes don't get to run around claiming that they built everything, that the built the roads and that they built the bridges and so forth.

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

I really think people understand that in New York City we have high taxes.