Tamilisai Soundararajan Quotes

Most European countries fund their low corporate taxes with some form of a value-added tax, on consumption rather than income.

More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.

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

Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.

Anything to do with any new form of tax, like consumption tax in Japan, carbon tax in Australia, these are big issues that cannot be easily decided.

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

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

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

Obama broke his no-new-taxes pledge 15 days after he took office when he signed legislation on Feb. 4, 2009 raising the tax on cigarettes 158 percent - 62 cents per pack.

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

Taxes are a necessary evil of a civilized society.

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.

A tax code becomes an instrument of social policy.

Contrary to Mr. Trump’s claim that the United States is one of the most taxed nations, only South Korea, Chile, and Mexico, among O.E. C. D. countries, collect less in tax revenue as a share of the economy. That means that the American budget for things like prenatal care, low income housing, and worker training is simply not up to the task.

The Reagan tax reform delivered real fairness, closing loopholes for Washington special interests so that all Americans could keep more of their hard-earned paychecks.

The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenues: the arithmetic effect and the economic effect.

I think everybody wants GST.

I'm not going to raise taxes.

Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.

We have no interest in raising taxes.

Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em