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At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

If you raise taxes on something, you discourage that activity.

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

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack. I do think it's important to be transparent.

Taxes are way too complicated, and people spend way too much time worrying about ways to get them lower.

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.