The linkage between tax rates and public services is, if not non-existent, negative.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.
It is a fundamental rule with me not to vote for a loan or tax bill till I am satisfied it is necessary for the public service, and then not if the deficiency can be avoided by lopping off unnecessary objects of expenditure or the enforcement of an exact and judicious economy in the public disbursements.
Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
If you are doing well, your business will pay more in tax; if you're not doing well, you pay less.
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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