Andrew Mellon Quotes

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

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.

The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

Lowering taxes without pain or costs were the ultimate Economic Utopia

I have been very aggressively campaigning on Kansas needs to cut its taxes.

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.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

I will cut all state taxes by at least one third.

A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find this attractive.

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

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.

We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses.

I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.

Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn't work.

Capital gains tax reduction is the ultimate now-nowism.

There's a lot of evidence you can sell people on tax increases if they think its an investment.

Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician.

the most just and equitable tax that can be devised.

It is essential to reduce taxes on employment and wealth creation in order to enhance our economy's competitiveness. But I don't think it's sensible today to write a Conservative budget … with specific pledges on tax reduction.

The Reagan tax reform delivered real fairness, closing loopholes for Washington special interests so that all Americans could keep more of their hard-earned paychecks.

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.