Robert J. Bentley Quotes

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

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

I'm not going to raise taxes.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

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

Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician.

The easiest votes I ever cast were the votes to cut taxes. The hardest votes I had to cast were to raise taxes.

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

We have no interest in raising taxes.

From an emotional standpoint it's very easy to say don't raise taxes, and no one wants to raise taxes.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.

Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.

Raising taxes kills conservatives.

Anybody can balance a budget if they raise taxes.

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.

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

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.

I have been very aggressively campaigning on Kansas needs to cut its taxes.

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

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

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