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We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy.

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'

I suppose the White House thinks it's doing what Big Business wants, but it will lead to vastly increased taxes, because all these guest workers are to be allowed to bring their children.

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.

Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids.

Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.

We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.

In speech after speech on his health care plan, the President has tried to convince us that what he is proposing will be good for America. But, how can it be good for America if it raises taxes by a half trillion dollars and costs a trillion dollars or more to implement?

The Republicans are running wild with our tax dollars and it's been a mistake to let this administration continue a policy of incompetence when it comes to Iraq.

I am neither a free-trade man, willing to collect all the money we have to raise by direct tax upon the people, nor am I willing to lay a tax simply for protection when the Government does not need the money.

I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about.

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.

When we leave money in the hands of taxpayers, they buy things, they pay taxes, they grow government.

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.