Charles B. Rangel Quotes

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

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

Every time you exempt a portion of the economy from taxation you put pressure on the rest of the economy.

Any effort of tax reform will produce winners and losers.

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils.

Look at the current tax code. It’s a 10 million word mess..

I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

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

Tax policy is not about compassion.

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

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

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.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform.

Texans should not be taxed on our taxes.

High tax rates distort economic decision making, and our corporate income tax rate is one of the highest in the world.

I think we're pretty much where we need to be on corporate taxes.

The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percent; that's to say, add on other taxes like VAT to the income tax.