Kay Bailey Hutchison Quotes

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.

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

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

The art of taxation consists in plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing.

I cannot support taxing the taxpayer.

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.

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

I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada.

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

Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.

Who's on the case when it comes to the flat 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 think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

On issues relating to taxes, you don't always speak with one voice.

I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes.

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

I think we're pretty much where we need to be on corporate taxes.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

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.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.