Bill Gates Quotes

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

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

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

What you don't want to have is tax-driven economic activity.

made it a catechism that low taxes solve everything

There is no serious statistical evidence in support of the view that tax rates at current levels have a major disincentive effect on economic growth.

There's nothing wrong with paying taxes; they should be paid in proportion to how rich you are. This idea that you're going to get better growth by cutting taxes at the top has no historical justification. And it's certainly not an argument in favor of capitalism.

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

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

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

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.

Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?

Tax policy is not about compassion.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

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

Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.

A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.

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.

Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out.

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

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