We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place.
The Court's majority holds that the Establishment Clause is no bar to Ohio's payment of tuition at private religious elementary and middle schools under a scheme that systematically provides tax money to support the schools' religious missions.
The tax money belongs to the taxpayers. It doesn't belong to the bureaucracy. And government is not a welfare system.
Tax policy should reflect a country's values and address its problems.
It's widely accepted that it is reasonable for a government to use tax policy to change behaviour.
For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.
Tax policy is not about compassion.
In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know what it takes to create tens of millions of jobs.
To be competitive globally, we have to reduce the corporate tax rate.
Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.
You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.
Here's the question for my fellow Republicans: Do we want to be the first-ever GOP House majority to raise federal marginal income tax rates?
For nearly a century, Republican-controlled Houses held the line on tax rates, a Republican coup de pointe to Democratic tax-increase parries.
The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.
To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.
Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
Maybe I should get back to the music-writing phase and write one on tax reform.
Tax reform exists, sort of, as an outline - miles away from being actual passed legislation.
Demanding that the rich get a tax cut as a condition for tax relief for others is simply elitist.
So, all levels of government should be working on tax relief. That's important.
