Manoj Bajpayee Quotes

Movies are just ridiculously expensive.

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

Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged. It's one of those taxes that most clearly damages economic growth and jobs.

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.

By an equal obligation … every citizen with the same means would pay the same contributions [taxes]; the common man would not be more heavily imposed upon.

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

Very high taxes on the very rich—that was invented in the United States.

My tax break is your tax hike.

If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.

I believe in a progressive tax structure that fairly distributes the costs of government in a way that those of us fortunate to have more, carry more of the burden.

That's the problem with very high taxes - they don't redistribute wealth; they redistribute people.

I think the movie industry has to pay attention that we need to make good quality films, or we are never going to get the business back.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Obama and Clinton wrongly believe that the corporate income tax is a tax on the rich. The reality is that rich corporations don't pay taxes - workers do.

Taxes are never popular.

The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenues: the arithmetic effect and the economic effect.

Sometimes, tax rate increases create the very problems that the spending is intended to cure. In other words, the tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

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.

A study by Treasury economists estimated that a country with a tax rate one percentage point lower than another country's attracts 3 percent more capital. It's not surprising then, that average OECD corporate tax rates have trended steadily downward.

Raising the personal allowance is massively expensive. For the same amount of money, you could look at reducing the rate of tax.

Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death.

I do not believe that the top rate should be lowered for individuals who are making more than $1 million a year. I don't think there's any need to eliminate the estate tax.

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

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

We want to go back to a tax system where Americans sit down at their kitchen table, and they do their taxes on a single sheet of paper. That's what we should have in this America.