Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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At a certain point, you can't tax people beyond a certain level.
There is no such thing as a good tax.
No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.
We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.
You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.
I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.
We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.
I think that taxes have to exist. They should exist at the lowest possible level, and to the extent that we can, we shouldn't invent more. Maybe that's my experience being mayor of New York City, where we had so many taxes.