Rick Scott Quotes

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

A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find this attractive.

Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician.

If someone's getting a tax cut, I'm not upset that they're getting a tax cut. I'm really not upset.

My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.

Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.

I don't think we should reduce the corporate tax rate.

Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.

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.

What Governor Romney is proposing is an across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates for households, every household in America by 20 percent. And we'll have to broaden the base to pay for that. Also, a very deep cut in the corporate rate.

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

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

It is my hope that by reducing the tax burden on small business owners that we can help them grow their businesses and, in doing so, create jobs.

A long term tax cut is not a tax cut at all unless it is accompanied by a spending cut.

Lowering taxes without pain or costs were the ultimate Economic Utopia

Capital gains tax reduction is the ultimate now-nowism.

It is essential to reduce taxes on employment and wealth creation in order to enhance our economy's competitiveness. But I don't think it's sensible today to write a Conservative budget … with specific pledges on tax reduction.

Developers play one of us off the other, forcing us to reduce our taxes to attract their development. Everyone is being forced to reduce their tax level to a point where it's not economical.

The revenue derived from a graduated income tax should be applied to the reduction of the burden of taxation now levied upon the domestic industries of this country.

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted