Revenue Generation Quotes

Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary government building—unless it's a temporary tax.

Taxes are what pays for a civilized society.

It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.

High tax rates that people don't actually pay do not bring the government as much revenue as lower tax rates that they do pay.

President Obama's proposal to raise the top rate to 39 percent is equal to the rate under President Clinton in the 1990s when Wall Street reached record high levels and the economy produced lots of jobs.

It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs.

Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break all deficit records. In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.

In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes.

Over the past 100 years, there have been three major periods of tax-rate cuts in the U.S.: the Harding-Coolidge cuts of the mid-1920s; the Kennedy cuts of the mid-1960s; and the Reagan cuts of the early 1980s. Each of these periods of tax cuts was remarkably successful as measured by virtually any public policy metric.

We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity.

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Government can’t deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch.

Sales fixes everything.

If you tax something, you get less of it. If you subsidize something, you get more of it.

Growth is always essential. Running any tech company, you want to make sure you're growing. Putting in place all of the right structure to be able to ensure growth.

My biggest objection to raising taxes is that it feeds the government addiction to spending money.

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

Now all of you profiteering "patriots" who have bawled yourself hoarse about "standing back of the President" get into line and support his recommendation for "additional taxes on war profits, incomes and luxuries.