George F. Will Quotes

Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.

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

Most European countries fund their low corporate taxes with some form of a value-added tax, on consumption rather than income.

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.

My district has a large number of Independents, if you say anything about a 70 percent tax rate, you lose people right away.

I believe that the GST is for the good of the people.

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em

A huge segment of the country has always felt overtaxed. In 1938, when taxes were roughly 17% of income, a 'Fortune' survey found that nearly half of all Americans thought they paid too much relative to what they got in return.

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

What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn't make sense.

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.

'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That's not a tax raise. That's called fairness where I come from.

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

Having won re-election convincingly and against the economic odds, President Obama quickly made good on his promise of maintaining taxes as they are for the middle class while raising them on the wealthiest Americans.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

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

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

President Obama has repeatedly urged Congress to let the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year. Increasing rates on top earners is an obvious way to raise revenue from those who can afford it most.

I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.