There are no taxes that are unpaid, nor were there any taxes that I was responsible for that didn't get paid.
I made a promise to you and the people of our state when I was running for governor: I promised I would cut taxes by 10% for middle-class families.
I can assure you that my wife and I - every penny of income we've ever had, our taxes were paid in West Virginia.
There are a few things that we can do. One of them is that we can increase the taxes that people are paying who are the extremely wealthy in our communities. So, 70 percent, 80 percent, we've had it as high as 90 percent.
While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.
In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.
Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.