I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not raising taxes. That's solving a problem.
That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.
Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.
The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.
I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do.
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
This is government's primary function - to keep us safe - and when large percentages in America don't feel safe, they start asking: What am I paying my taxes for? What is government all about?
My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.
[Barack Obama failed to sell a health care reform plan to American voters] because the utter implausibility of its central promise - expanded coverage at lower cost - led voters to conclude that it would lead ultimately to more government, more taxes and more debt.
Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.
This is a very challenging time in the life of our nation. Weakened America's place in the world after the leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the world stage has been followed by an economy that is truly struggling, stifled by an avalanche of more taxes, more regulations, Obamacare, the war on coal and the kind of trade deals that put American workers in the back seat.
I paid $1. 9 billion in taxes in my lifetime.
Our tax code becomes so absurdly complex every 32 years that we have no choice but to scrap it and re-write. The 32-year period is up in 2018. So the time has come. History tells us that we're going to produce a fairer, simpler tax code by 2018.
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.
I had been through, of course, the divorce and I had been hit with some taxes that really showed me to be careful who's working with you and your money, and you have to be the one that is responsible for your money - you can't trust anyone and I did and I ran into a problem.
Yes. I don't think it would be appropriate at this point to raise taxes on anyone, certainly not in 2011.
I hate putting up taxes.
Higher income people don't have to pay taxes if they don't want to.
If you're white and wealthy, Texas is a great place, however, no Texas governor Republican or Democrat is eager to raise taxes and without that you can't expand access to health care or decrease the cost of higher education.