"What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes."
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"[T]hese tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans are also the tax cuts that are least likely to promote growth."
"Spend less than you make; always be saving something. Put it into a tax-deferred account. Over time, it will begin to amount to something. This is such a no-brainer."
"What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both."
"No one is patriotic about taxes."
"I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes."
"Taxation: how the sheep are shorn."
"Why I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes."
"The only certain things in life are death and taxes!"
"Taxes are an investment in America."
"We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes."
"For every benefit you receive a tax is levied."
"Every advantage has its tax."
"The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers."
"Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes."
"There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!"
"Taxes are the sinews of the state."
"Our aim is to make tax collecting a declining industry."
"I've been held responsible for taxes I know nothing about."
"We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect."