Donald Trump Quotes

I don't think we should reduce the corporate tax rate.

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

I will cut all state taxes by at least one third.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

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

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

Lowering taxes without pain or costs were the ultimate Economic Utopia

Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician.

Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.

My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.

If we could get the corporate tax rate down to, let's say, a maximum of 25 percent, it would be a sea change for this country. It would be great.

Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let's give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut.

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

I'm not going to raise taxes.

Our first priority is to cut taxes.

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

The United States already has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.

We're going to cut corporate taxes, which will bring huge amounts of jobs back to the United States.

Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.

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.

I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

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