If we want to increase revenue, we need more taxpayers. The way to do that is employ more people.
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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.
What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.
The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.
If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.
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.
We need to lower marginal tax rates and increase investment.
I'm much more interested in raising revenues for businesses than for the government.
I don't believe we need any more taxes. We need to curtail the size of government. That seems to be a common thread among a majority of Americans out there that understand that we have to limit the size and scope of our government.
There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.
Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.