Doug Ducey Quotes

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

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!

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.

I wanted nothing more than to vote for a tax plan that would put more money in the pockets of overburdened taxpayers and spur job creation.

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

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

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

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.

To be sure, the Fair Tax is a big idea. However, I believe America was built on big ideas, and I was elected to Congress to fight for those big ideas, not nibble around the edges of a broken and destructive system. The FairTax would be a real stimulus for economic growth, and it wouldn't cost taxpayers a dime.

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

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

Raising taxes won't create private sector jobs.

Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.

Our first priority is to cut taxes.

I do believe that we need to lower taxes on our hard working Iowans immediately.

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.

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

The dual effect of high growth creating higher income that's taxed by government at all levels, combined with lessening demands placed on government that occurs during economic prosperity, is a worthy objective.

As Ronald Reagan understood, the difference between a good tax structure and a poor one has a very real impact not only on how much money we have in our pockets every April 15th, but whether we have a job to support our families in the first place.

I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.