When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I guess it feels to me that the political argument that has been lost in my lifetime is taxation. How do you engage in that debate when people don't trust politicians at all? It is almost impossible to start a conversation about taxation.
The U.S. has fallen behind with tax policies that haven't been updated in a half-century.
There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.
Taxation without representation is tyranny.
The linkage between tax rates and public services is, if not non-existent, negative.
We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.
When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.
Read my lips: no new taxes.
When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.