Mitch Daniels Quotes

Those who pay no taxes, disposing by their votes of other people's money, have every motive to be lavish and none to economize.

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.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

I wouldn't minimize the avoidance of tax increases as a contribution to human welfare.

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

Taxes are always too high.

After a while if you have low enough taxes you'll be bankrupt.

A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.

We cannot allow American taxpayers to foot the bill for tax revenue grabs in Europe and elsewhere.

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes.

Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.

Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut they didn't really like and didn't see a tax increase they didn't hate and do everything they could to block.

Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

There is an old adage that the quickest way to drop your tax take is to increase taxes. If capital gains tax is going to be 50 percent, my contingent capital gains tax is going to be 250 million pounds.

There is no such thing as a good tax.