Lower Taxes Quotes

#1. The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.

Rand Paul

#2. The Republicans have lost their standards; they've lost their principles ... Really, that's why the machine in the Republican Party is fighting against me ... They have never really gone along with lower taxes and less government.

Sharron Angle

#3. And the fact is - is if you lower - if you lower taxes, you don't have to wait for the money to get to the states, the money to get out in contracts. You send a signal immediately, and so businesses start making decisions.

John Boehner

#4. I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.

Howard Coble

#5. I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution.

Roscoe Bartlett

#6. I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane. The legislators who leave that policy in place are derelict in their duties to be rational and fair. There are plenty of them in both political parties. It's totally outrageous.

Charlie Munger

#7. I got elected to run the government more efficiently, lower taxes.

Phil Roe

#8. I am for anyone that will give me lower taxes, stop all this stupid spending. Whoever promises me that gets this chicken's vote.

Joan Rivers

#9. What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

Kevin Brady

#10. I'm always for lower taxes because lower taxes make people want to do things. Less burden, more fun, and economics is about people wanting to have fun. Growth is fun for people in the marketplace.

Amity Shlaes

#11. Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government.

Grover Norquist

#12. First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes.

Mike Huckabee

#13. If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

Nick Hanauer

#14. Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

Larry Elder

#15. When a democracy reaches a point where the politicians cannot say no to the people, and both parties are competing for votes by promising even more spending or even lower taxes, or both, the experiment is about over.

Pat Buchanan

#16. I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

Grover Norquist

#17. Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.

Sarah Palin

#18. Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

Barry Goldwater

#19. There is a tremendous movement on to get lower taxes on earned incomes. Then will come the real problem, 'Who among us on salary are earning our income?'

Will Rogers

#20. Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

Robert Torricelli

#21. I'm a Conservative who believes in lower taxes. They lead to a more enterprising economy. But I'm not somebody who believes you can fund lower taxes by borrowing more money.

George Osborne

#22. You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.

Rick Santorum

#23. As [House] speaker, I came back, working with President Bill Clinton. We passed a very Reagan-like program: less regulation, lower taxes. Unemployment dropped to 4.2 percent. We created 11 million jobs.

Newt Gingrich

#24. Since the 1920s, when some U.S. cruise ships decided to fly a Panamanian flag to avoid Prohibition regulations, ships have commonly flown the flag of countries foreign to their owners. The benefits are obvious: lower taxes, laxer labor and safety laws.

Rose George

#25. Certainly, the job of a U.S. senator is to create a climate conducive to creating jobs, which is lower taxes and less government regulation. What Harry Reid has been doing is putting forward those policies that actually put more regulation on business.

Sharron Angle

#26. I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Donald Trump

#27. After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

Howard Coble

#28. I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values.

Byron Dorgan

#29. Well, I think lower taxes and less regulation would actually promote growth.

Jeb Bush

#30. For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

Jim Jordan

#31. On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent with the mainstream of the Republican Party in the United States and with many Democrats as well.

John Howard

#32. One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk.

Ron Fournier

#33. It's why we oppose Citizens United from that right-wing Supreme Court. In 2012, I also said the Tea Party "acted like terrorists" and called a donut shop manager in Milwaukee who wanted lower taxes a "smartass." And I said the number one issue is a three-letter word, J-O-B-S." I'm proud of who I am.

Joe Biden

#34. The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

Daniel Hannan

#35. The Netherlands has been severely hit by the debt crisis, and the solution is to lower taxes, get government finances in order, and make room for investment.

Mark Rutte

#36. We can be seduced ... by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

Jean Vanier

#37. People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

Will Rogers

#38. If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the parasitic burden of government taxes and spending upon the productive activities of the private sector.

Murray Rothbard

#39. Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.

John Barrasso

#40. President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.

Eric Alterman

#41. 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

#42. Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order.

David Boaz

#43. Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges.

Ralph Goodale

#44. Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

William Hague

#45. I plan to lower corporate taxes to create an environment that encourages companies to invest more.

Lee Myung-bak

#46. Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich.

Andrew Mellon

#47. We need to remember that we can't compete endlessly with other nations that set their income taxes substantially lower than ours. They will attract jobs, and investment. They may generate more tax - and they may even persuade their tennis champs to run that extra half yard

Boris Johnson

#48. The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

Jack Markell

#49. What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower.

Henry Rollins

#50. [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.

Charles Krauthammer

#51. If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

Warren Buffett

#52. Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

Lord Chesterfield

#53. Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government

Tony Abbott

#54. There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower ... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

Grover Norquist

#55. If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake.

Groucho Marx

#56. Gold belongs only in the portfolios of fearmongers and speculators. If you own gold in your portfolio, expect to not get paid an income, pay higher taxes on your returns, take a more volatile ride than the stock market, and get a long-term return lower than bonds.

Peter Mallouk

#57. One tax dodge often used by multi-national companies is to squirrel their earnings abroad in foreign subsidiaries located in countries where taxes are lower.

Robert Reich

#58. When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.

William Hague

#59. Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.

Barry Ritholtz