Paul R. Ehrlich Quotes

I don't hear anything from Trump about tax increases. I hear tax cuts from him. I hear tax reform from him.

I'm in favor of doing tax reform, but I think tax reform ought to be revenue neutral as it was back during the [Ronald] Reagan years. We've resolved this issue.

It is a general idea, that when taxes are once laid on, they are never taken off.

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

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

A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would be supportive of.

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed.

We haven’t plugged a tax loophole in 10 or 15 years.

I'll tell you what the fair tax does, it empowers the consumer and it lets people have their whole paycheck and it takes the power out of the hands of Congress and puts it in the hands of the consumer. That's power to the people.

Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.

The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day.

You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.

In reality, finding a way to raise taxes may well be the central political problem facing the United States.

It was absolutely critical to renew the Bush tax cuts. Letting them expire would result in a massive tax increase that would retard economic growth.

Tax reform should happen rather quickly.

Americans tend not to be too enthusiastic about having their taxes raised again....But if the American people aren't going to accept it, if the politicians don't have the courage to raise taxes, what are we facing down the road?

Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

We have no plans to increase tax at all.

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

Here's a brave old reality, taxes don't go away; raising them never generates revenue, never ever ever.

Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as much drama in it; moreover, it has been mellowed and made gay by as many gaudy, preposterous theories

The idea of abolishing Income Tax is to me highly attractive, both on other grounds and because it tends to public economy.