Larry Hogan Quotes

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

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.

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

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

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.

As governor, I want to make sure that Arizona's hardworking taxpayers get to keep more of what they earn.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I cannot support taxing the taxpayer.

People are taxed enough.

I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.

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.

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.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

I am for lowering taxes.

There is no such thing as a good tax.