Quote by Thomas H Kean

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a…

— John Stuart Mill

Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the…

— John Cornyn

The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies…

— Thomas Sowell

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

— Mark Skousen

Read my lips: no new taxes.

— George H. W. Bush

Let's eliminate the income tax, which is one huge speed bump to long-term economic growth and recovery.

— Tate Reeves

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to…

— Anonymous

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

My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle…

— Thomas Piketty

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

— Michele Bachmann

More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.

— Piyush Goyal

There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear.

— Calvin Coolidge