Yoshihide Suga Quotes

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

If the government can make money, what on earth does it collect taxes for you and me for? Why don't it make what money it wants, take the taxes out, and give the balance to us?

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

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.

Taxes grow without rain.

When the income tax was passed, that provided a virtual unlimited supply of money for government.

Taxes are the lifeblood of Government

The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quickly go bankrupt… Government needs labor to pay its upkeep.

The role of government is to tax the people to the least extent possible while still taxing them enough to cover the basic needs for government.

We have to have an adequate number of taxes and an adequate amount of taxes.

I dislike paying taxes as much as anyone, but yes, taxes are the price of civilization. There is no America without taxes. The question isn't, "Do we want to have taxes?" The question is, "How heavy is the burden, and who bears that burden"?

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.

At the end of the day, philanthropy can only ever be an adjunct to what governments provide. And government coffers need to be replenished.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

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.

I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

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

What the government gives it must first take away.

My biggest objection to raising taxes is that it feeds the government addiction to spending money.

Congress may spend money in aid of the "general welfare.

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it.

Taxes are what pays for a civilized society.

We have taxes so we can educate our kids, take care of our elderly.