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Taxes should be lower, flatter, and simpler, in that order.

I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil.

We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes.

I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy.

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.

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?

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.

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.

In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care.

I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.