Robert Torricelli Quotes

My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.

The Democrats believe that if God did not want them to raise taxes, He would not have created the Internal Revenue Service.

Going forward, my mind will be open to every solution - except one. We should not - we must not - and I will not - raise taxes.

I don't speak for all Libertarians any more than Sean Penn speaks for all Democrats.

In the end, all Republicans want to make sure we don't increase taxes. That's where we differ with the Democrats.

When we tax, we are dealing with fire, and without proper controls we can easily burn down everything we have built.

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

Every man that lowered our flag was a Democrat.... Every preacher that said slavery was a divine institution was a Democrat. Recollect it! Every man that shot a Union soldier was a Democrat. Every wound borne by you Union soldiers is a souvenir of a Democrat.

When a government finds itself in the calamitous circumstances where it … must tax its people heavily, it behooves it, so far as possible, to see that all those who are liable pay according to their means, and that a proper assessment is made of them. In this way, the middle class is not taxed in order to spare the rich, nor the poor so much more burdened that they no longer have any possibility of improving their condition. Labor is encouraged and industry not deterred. Trade remains free and restricted as little as possible, and so far as possible taxes are levied on objects which go beyond necessity, coming under the category of luxuries, and are therefore conditioned on the choice of the people .

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.

The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits.

I have never voted for a tax increase.

I oppose indexing gas tax hikes to inflation.

I just simply can't support having my constituents pay more taxes and not receive more benefits for their tax payments.

Lower taxes will stimulate your own personal economy by leaving more money in your pocket to do what you want - invest, save, spend, buy a bigger house, a nicer car, and give to charity. And lower taxes also lead to more money for the government to use on those things they've promised you. It's a win-win for everyone.

I've made a promise that taxes would be my last resort on issues.

I'm a Conservative. I don't believe there should be too many rules. There should be lower taxes.

I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.

Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.

There is no need to increase the taxes. India can run without troubling the citizens.

Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry.

I'm in favor of doing tax reform, but I think tax reform ought to be revenue neutral as it was back during the [Ronald] Reagan years. We've resolved this issue.

Even before I was a Democrat, I was a Zionist.

It is easier to start taxes than to stop them. A tax an inch long can easily become a yard long. That has been the history of the income tax. Would not the sales tax be likely to have a similar history [in the U.S.]? ... Canadian newspapers report that an increase in the sales tax threatens to drive the Mackenzie King administration out of office. Canada began with a sales tax of 2%.... Starting this month the tax is 6%. The burden, in other words, has already been increased 200% ... What the U.S. needs is not new taxes, is not more taxes, but fewer and lower taxes.