Thomas Jefferson Quotes

No taxation without respiration.

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

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

'Tax' is a bad word for politicians.

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.

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

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

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

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

That which angers men most, is to be taxed

I have never voted for a tax increase.

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

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.

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. - they'll find something.

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.

The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!

What about feeling sorry for those who pay the taxes? Those who are people that no one feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say 'enough,' they are called selfish.

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the Democrats have a fight with the American people, not with me.

Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government.

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!

In the end, all Republicans want to make sure we don't increase taxes. That's where we differ with the Democrats.

We're not the bosses of taxpayers; they're ours.

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

Whenever taxes become burdensome, a remedy can be applied by the people; but if they do not act for themselves, no one can be very successful in acting for them.