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  • We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others. -- Jeff Rich
  • Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth. -- Paul Ryan
  • You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion. -- George P. Shultz
  • Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets. -- Bradley A. Smith
  • Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates. -- Timothy Noah
  • The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes. -- Bob Beauprez
  • Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues. -- Mike Pence
  • The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. -- Thomas Sowell
  • By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. -- John Podhoretz
  • The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction. -- Thomas Sowell
  • I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue. -- Tom Cole
  • Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down. -- Jack Kemp
  • And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done. -- Arthur Laffer
  • In a perfect world we would bring corporate tax rates down to 25% or less so we can get competitive in the world economy. Ultimately, I would love to see a flat tax. -- Eric Cantor
  • Broaden the tax base, close loopholes and flatten the tax rates - all of which would bring more revenue stability and certitude to projections as well as make filing a comparable breeze. -- David Harsanyi
  • In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A 'good' consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments. -- Mario Draghi
  • I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable. -- Dave Brat
  • Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it. Moreover, there is no proof that higher marginal rates dissuade investment, all the rhetoric from the Right notwithstanding. -- Eliot Spitzer
  • Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues. -- Mike Pence
  • The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus. -- Terry Savage
  • Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John F. Kennedy, who lowered marginal tax rates to get economic growth and job creation. Barack Obama and the far left, they are a completely different ball of wax. -- Monica Crowley
  • A better way to help American companies compete against competitors abroad is to remove all series and myriad of obstacles they face in America, whether it's union rules in some states or massive amounts of regulation imposed upon them, one of the most expensive combined corporate tax rates on the planet. -- Marco Rubio
  • More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates? -- Gary Bauer
  • Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another country willing to lower its rate further, creating a sad race to zero. -- Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective. -- Stephen Harper
  • We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers. -- Herman Cain
  • America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view. -- Jim Ratcliffe
  • An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits -- John F. Kennedy
  • You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax. -- Nick Clegg
  • There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers -- Lindsey Graham
  • Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts. -- Patrick McHenry
  • Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families. -- Scott Howell
  • I would support eliminating certain tax breaks that are not economically justifiable if they are offset with reductions in tax rates. -- Jason Chaffetz
  • Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody. -- Ronald Reagan
  • High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay. -- Thomas Sowell
  • I think we need to have competitive tax rates in order to create jobs in this country. And I think it should be fair. -- Kristi Noem
  • HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes. -- Rick Warren
  • High tax rates are followed by attempts of ingenious men to beat them as surely as surely as snow is followed by little boys on sleds. -- Arthur Melvin Okun
  • Tax reductions are usually simpler and less distortive. I'm certainly willing to look at getting rid of tax deductions/credits, and go to dramatically reduced rates. -- Grover Norquist
  • I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates. -- Adam Hasner
  • We know that inflation distorts economic behavior. In the 1970s, a combination of high tax rates and inflation prompted investors to flee production in favor of protection. -- Nina Easton
  • I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners, is a recipe for economic growth. -- Glenn Hubbard
  • Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages. -- Franklin Raines
  • Let`s lower our tax rates on our businesses so that we`re on par with the rest of the world so that we don`t keep losing our businesses. -- Paul Ryan
  • It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US top tax rates on the wealthy were never below 70 percent. -- Robert Reich
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