We're going to cut corporate taxes, which will bring huge amounts of jobs back to the United States.
My goal in getting rid of tax loopholes is not to raise taxes. Our problem in Washington, D.C. is not a revenue problem, it is a spending problem.
I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.
Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.
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.
It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
GOP candidates routinely sign a pledge never, ever to raise taxes. Democratic candidates aren't even asked to sign a parallel pledge never, ever to cut entitlements.
The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.
I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percent; that's to say, add on other taxes like VAT to the income tax.