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“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

“The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.”

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Author:Mark Zandi

“We rule out raising taxes this year.”

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Author:Luis de Guindos

“I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not raising taxes. That's solving a problem.”

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Author:Lindsey Graham

“Arnold was on the 'Today' show today, he was a little light on specifics. He said he could solve California's $38 billion budget deficit, without cutting spending or raising taxes because there was a third way. What is it? Let's just say it involves a robot going back in time to convince Gray Davis to go into dentistry.”

“I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.”

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Author:Markwayne Mullin

“I am no longer going to go along with this idea that we're going to keep spending and borrowing and taking over and raising taxes, that I'm going to do everything I can to change things.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

“Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.”

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Author:Jim Jordan

“Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.”

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Author:Martha McSally

“I'm the one who will not raise taxes. My opponent now says he'll raise them as a last resort, or a third resort. But when a politician talks like that, you know that's one resort he'll be checking into. My opponent, my opponent won't rule out raising taxes. But I will. And The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no. And they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again, and I'll say, to them, Read my lips: no new taxes.”

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Author:George H. W. Bush

“The only reason the president insists on raising [tax] rates is because he knows it will destroy Republican unity, it will cause a complete fracture of the Republican majority in the house, it will hand him a Congress that he can then manipulate for the next two years at least because the Republicans will be neutered. ... This is entirely a political action, a way to get a surrender from the Republicans.”

“The message coming out of Washington, especially from our leftist politicians and the news media, is that we solve our budget problems by raising taxes on the rich. If Americans were more informed, such a message would be insulting to our intelligence. There are not enough rich people to satisfy Congress' appetite.”

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Author:Walter E. Williams

“What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“Donald Trump would end up raising taxes on middle-class families.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“When Obama talks about raising taxes on the rich, he's looking at me.”

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Author:Kenny Chesney

“And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.”

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Author:Arthur Laffer

“In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes.”

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Author:Susana Martinez

“The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.”

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Author:Bob Beauprez

“The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.”

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Author:Paula Poundstone

“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.”

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Author:Will Rogers