John Linder Quotes

There is no serious statistical evidence in support of the view that tax rates at current levels have a major disincentive effect on economic growth.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

I think we're pretty much where we need to be on corporate taxes.

I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

Closing tax loopholes has to be part of the revenue equation.

There are going to be no income taxes and no wealth taxes.

The easy way out is to increase taxes.

Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.

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

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

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.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

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.

I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

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.

Taxes are always too high.

What you don't want to have is tax-driven economic activity.

It seems difficult to understand that high rates of taxation do not necessarily mean high revenue for the government, and that more revenue may often be obtained with lower tax rates.

A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.

Taxes are not trivial - they're a huge portion of this overall economy. And that's why I focused on them.