Tax Incentives Quotes

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

Our tax code is arcane, burdensome and unwieldy. In the years since Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act, the code has gone from fewer than 30,000 pages to more than 70,000.

I believe that hardworking people should retain as much of the money as they can in terms of the taxes that they pay. But I think everybody should pay their taxes.

It's not Apple's fault that they're seeking to avoid paying taxes. They're not lying, cheating or stealing. They're following the rules that were created by governments. If the government doesn't like the rules, they can change them.

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

Over the past 100 years, there have been three major periods of tax-rate cuts in the U.S.: the Harding-Coolidge cuts of the mid-1920s; the Kennedy cuts of the mid-1960s; and the Reagan cuts of the early 1980s. Each of these periods of tax cuts was remarkably successful as measured by virtually any public policy metric.

We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity.

If you tax something, you get less of it. If you subsidize something, you get more of it.

Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.

Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here.

We sincerely believed that we don't tax too little in Washington. We spend too much.

The nation should have a tax system that looks like someone designed it on purpose.

I want to feel good about paying taxes.

If you manage a grocery store, you pay 35 percent in taxes. If you manage a hedge fund, you only pay 15 percent.

Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans.

Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.

The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.

I don't support any increase in income tax rates.

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.

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

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

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

I think there's a lot to be said for changing the balance of what we tax: wealth versus work.