Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.
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What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.
Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.
When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.
Read my lips: no new taxes.
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.
If we want to increase revenue, we need more taxpayers. The way to do that is employ more people.
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.
I love talking about taxes.