Even a healthy economy and labor market would have struggled under the additional expenses enacted and proposed in 2009 and 2010 - from healthcare mandates and higher taxes, to carbon cap-and-trade and delay in extending the last decade's tax reforms.
The key to revenue growth is tax reform that closes loopholes and that is pro-growth. Then with a growing economy, that's where your revenue growth comes in, not from higher taxes.
I oppose indexing gas tax hikes to inflation.
My biggest worry is that Obama says he's going to tax the upper 5 percent by raising their taxes by 20 percent. But among that 5 percent are the corporations that are hiring middle-class Americans.
Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction.
I had hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax penalties.
If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.
Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system.
I do believe in tax incentives in order to move the economy forward.
There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.
1913 wasn't a very good year. 1913 gave us the income tax, the 16th amendment and the IRS.
A temporary reduction in tax rates on individual incomes can be a powerful weapon against recession.
Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.
The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.
Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.
For years, comprehensive tax reform has eluded legislators.
