If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.
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And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.
You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.
If we want to increase revenue, we need more taxpayers. The way to do that is employ more people.
Tax should be the same for everybody.
I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.
You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.
Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.
You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.
I think we can have some tax reform, but that doesn't mean tax increases. We ought to make the, the rates flatter. We ought to get rid of a bunch of those loopholes.
It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.