The true principle of taxation is the benefit principle - those who benefit from a government service should pay for it. It's also known as the 'user pay' principle. Every effort should be made to link the payment of taxes or fees to the cost associated with the government service.
Mark Skousen
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Raising property taxes in Alabama is never going to happen. The people are never going to vote for that. I don't like property taxes, either.
Robert J. Bentley
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I don't like paying taxes, but I like sleeping at night.
Leonardo Del Vecchio
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When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.
Ann Coulter
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If there is one issue where one could justifiably assume that Republicans are all in agreement, it is on lowering taxes.
Kristen Soltis Anderson
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Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.
Michael Arrington
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There are big winners in Paul Ryan's 'Roadmap,' and you can guess who they are. He would cut taxes for the wealthy, completely eliminate the corporate income tax, and create a value added tax.
Jan Schakowsky
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The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.
John Redwood
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Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.
Grover Norquist
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Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.
Steve Mnuchin
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In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.
Herman Cain
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In the end, all Republicans want to make sure we don't increase taxes. That's where we differ with the Democrats.
Tom Cole
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There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent.
George Osborne
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Though I don't personally believe that Bitcoin is true money, it should be perfectly legal, and there should be no restrictions on it; there should be no taxes on it.
Ron Paul
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As Indiana's governor, I balanced eight budgets, never raised taxes, and left the largest surplus in state history. It wasn't always easy. Cuts had to be made and some initiatives deferred. Occasionally I had to say 'no.'
Evan Bayh
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For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
Mike Pence
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I realize what it means to be financially comfortable, and I want to be that. But I'm lucky enough to be in that position. And I'm also careful. I save 38 percent of my earnings after expenses, before taxes.
David Duval
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In the Eisenhower era, when earnings over $400,000 were subject to 91 percent taxes and the world was a smaller place, you could count the truly wealthy on one hand: Getty, Dupont, Mellon, Rockefeller, though even those fortunes were being dispersed to children as the old robber barons died off.
Michael Shnayerson
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There's not an appropriations bill in the last 10 years that the-that Democrats passed in the Congress. We haven't spent any money of your taxes in the last decade.
Chaka Fattah
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Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises.
Mo Ibrahim
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You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
Bill Gates
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Taxes are never popular.
Luis Videgaray Caso
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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
Albert Camus
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Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed. He has complied 100 percent with what the law requires.
Jason Chaffetz
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