Gladys Berejiklian Quotes

When the federal government promises no new taxes, they're promising no new federal taxes.

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

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

I'm not for a temporary war tax. We're putting actual dollars in one way or the other, and so if we're gonna look at taxes, we ought to look at a comprehensive tax reform policy.

Tax reform is taking taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed.

There is no difference, in fairness or economics, between lowering taxes on a favored group and spending money on a favored group.

There's a lot of evidence you can sell people on tax increases if they think its an investment.

A tax code becomes an instrument of social policy.

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

If there is one thing that most economists agree about in the realm of tax policy, it is that it's best to broaden the base of any tax, all else being equal. That means minimizing the number of deductions and exclusions from taxable income in order to lower marginal rates and reduce distortions.

It's widely accepted that it is reasonable for a government to use tax policy to change behaviour.

I support a progressive state income tax.

I don't rule out raising some taxes into the future.

I look at the idea of eliminating the state and local tax deduction as a geographic redistribution of wealth, because you're taking money from a place like New York to provide deeper tax cuts elsewhere.

I have pledged to work hard to get the state and local tax deduction cap lifted.

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

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.

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

Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.

The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.