David Dewhurst Quotes

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

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

I just don't want to pay taxes.

I don't support any increase in income tax rates.

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

Texans should not be taxed on our taxes.

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

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

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.

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

I cannot support taxing the taxpayer.

Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death.

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

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

I have never voted for a tax increase.

Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.

There are going to be no income taxes and no wealth taxes.

Taxes suck. They really stink.

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

I will veto any tax increase.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.