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If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out.

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

When I looked at it and did my homework on this issue, I concluded that a flat tax is better than a consumption tax.

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product.

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair Tax, if we move towards a national sales tax, we have to make sure that we do away with the income tax.

So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.

Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time to eliminate the IRS and repeal the 16th Amendment.

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes.