Tax Expenditure Quotes

Capital gains tax reduction is the ultimate now-nowism.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

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.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

A lot of people in the western world don't realize how much taxes limit their options. You can end up paying almost half your income in taxes, which basically means you're working for the government for 180 days a year. I think I can find better ways to use the money I make for the benefit of society.

Here's the problem: the so-called 'millionaire surtax' is a permanent tax to pay for a temporary benefit.

I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable.

Every American has the constitutional right not to be taxed or have his tax money expended for the establishment of a religion.

There is spending in the tax code.

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

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

When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by any fair standard, the holy trinity of United States social policy should also include the mortgage-interest deduction - an enormous benefit that has also become politically untouchable.

I've been paying a lot of money in state income taxes, and I've been happy to do it, but when this last thing happened, this 50 percent increase in the tax rate, it was just too much.

Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year.

Taxes suck. They really stink.

First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.

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

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

A bad tax is one that is wastefully and poorly spent.

I'm paying more taxes inside my company and personally than I'll ever receive from Congress.

Using static scoring, tax cuts are broadly assumed to 'cost' a raw amount of reduced revenue. With dynamic scoring, the new revenue likely to flow from increased economic activity produced by a tax cut is considered, improving the accuracy of the projection.

Whatever you tax, you get less of.

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

In unforeseen or exceptional circumstances, the exceptional burdens placed on the national treasury can be better served by general taxes … than though new forced loans, levies, or as yet undiscovered resources, is surely incontrovertible.