We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze on property taxes.

The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns.

Closing tax loopholes has to be part of the revenue equation.

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

We've got to have comprehensive tax reform.

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

I didn't pay my taxes for years.

In 2008, Goldman Sachs only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.

Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to.

Wealthy people don't even pay taxes. But everybody must pay taxes.

National Democrats often try to pay for something with oil and gas taxes.

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

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.

The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise 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.

Raising taxes does nothing to allow the economy to recover.

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

Our courts must send a clear signal that India is not a banana republic where foreign companies can be invited to loot our resources and even avoid paying taxes on their windfall gains from the sale of those resources.

Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.