We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.
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I think we need to have competitive tax rates in order to create jobs in this country. And I think it should be fair.
At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.
If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.
People that create jobs create tax payers, which benefits society as a whole.
So every dollar of income that I have that is potentially taxed away is a dollar I can't put in my company to create a job. My entire company is around job creation.
You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.
Tax should be the same for everybody.
It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, but people who earn their living with capital ought not to.
A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.
America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.
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