Rick Cohen Quotes

I live in Vermont, and we don't have a tax incentive there, and therefore, we don't have professional crew there.

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.

There are some tax expenditures that are there for very obvious and very important and very good policy reasons. Whether it's the charitable deduction or the deduction for homes, it's not a loophole.

Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.

Capital gains tax reduction is the ultimate now-nowism.

Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician.

If every country tries to race towards the lowest [tax] rate, then in the end nobody gains. If you believe there should be no government at all, then fine. But if you believe some government is good, then you cannot have a system that erodes the tax base in all major countries.

Arthur Laffer has taught us, 'If you tax something, you get less of it.' That's why firms are moving offshore in droves. It's not about being unpatriotic. It's that it doesn't pay, after-tax, to invest in the United States.

And I will repeat today what I have said throughout this campaign. I will not raise taxes on the middle class. I will give you tax relief to help ease these burdens.

If there is one issue where one could justifiably assume that Republicans are all in agreement, it is on lowering taxes.

Your taxes go way down under a Trump administration.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn't make sense.

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.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.

I will cut all state taxes by at least one third.

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

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

Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut they didn't really like and didn't see a tax increase they didn't hate and do everything they could to block.