Mian Muhammad Mansha Quotes

We demand a graduated income tax.

I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes.

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

You want the guy driving a truck and the elderly to pay your share. You just want to pay zero taxes. Tell us right now what taxes are you are willing to pay.

What sensible people want from a tax is to raise as much money as possible with the least disruption to the economy.

It seems idle to speculate in the abstract as to whether or not a progressive income tax schedule rising to rates in excess of 70 percent are justifiable …. The fact is that such rates cannot be successfully collected.

Taxes must produce ample revenues without discouraging enterprise; and if it is to be just it must distribute the burden of taxes equitably.

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

Fundamentally, I've always been a fan of actually looking at our whole state tax system and really figuring out how we reform our tax system so that everyone's paying their fair share but we don't have a lot of nickel and diming with 100 taxes that end up hitting people that maybe can't bear it the most.

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

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes.

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

Tax policy is not about compassion.

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

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.

I think the rich should pay more in taxes - I agree with that 100 percent - but everybody should feel the pain a little bit.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

To me, there are four F's in a good tax system: it ought to be flatter, fairer, finite and family-friendly.

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

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

Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds.

We Liberal Democrats don't believe we should use the tax structure to champion just one type of family.

I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percent; that's to say, add on other taxes like VAT to the income tax.