Robert Mundell Quotes

The easy way out is to increase taxes.

I will veto any tax increase.

We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.

There never has been a new tax that met with public enthusiasm.

Rail against taxes of all kinds.

We have no interest in raising taxes.

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

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.

I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.

Those who pay no taxes, disposing by their votes of other people's money, have every motive to be lavish and none to economize.

The tax structure of the United States is fast becoming the most regressive of any Western nation.

A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.

My tax break is your tax hike.

That's the problem with very high taxes - they don't redistribute wealth; they redistribute people.

I cannot support taxing the taxpayer.

If we lower the payroll tax, will Americans let us raise it again? I don't think so.

I have never voted for a tax increase.

People are taxed enough.

I'm not going to raise taxes.

I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.

'Tax' is a bad word for politicians.