Grover Norquist Quotes About Taxes

Quotes about: Taxes

• Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

  Grover Norquist

  Cutting, Gun, Subsidies

• What Mae West said about sex is true about taxes. All tax cuts are good tax cuts; even bad tax cuts are good tax cuts.

  Grover Norquist

  Sex, Cutting, West

• They tax when you earn a dollar, they tax you when you save it, they tax you when you invest it. If you earn a dividend, they tax it again, and if you're stupid enough to die, they steal up to half.

  Grover Norquist

  Stupid, Half, Dollars

• One of the reasons some of the advocates of ever larger government and more government intrusiveness get nervous about discussions of the actual cost of government is that they fear if the people had a discussion about what government costs, the true cost of taxes, that they might not want as much government as they are presently getting.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, People, Cost

• Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

  Grover Norquist

  Government, Regulation, Taxes

  "The Man Behind The GOP's No-Tax Pledge". "NPR News" with Ari Shapir, www.npr.org. July 14, 2011.

• I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

  Grover Norquist

  Reform, Increase, Taxes

• Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.

  Grover Norquist

  Cutting, Growth, Want

  "The Situatuin Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. July 13, 2011.

• Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.

  Grover Norquist

  Want, Damage, Small Business

• The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.

  Grover Norquist

  Powerful, Party, Issues

• We want [government] down to the size to where it would fit in a bathtub, and then it could worry about what we were up to.

  Grover Norquist

  Money, Father, Government

• This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh will become part of our national dialogue about taxes and freedom. And it’s funny as hell. Author Jim Greenfield is a cross between Ayn Rand and Monty Python. If enough people read this hilarious ‘man versus state’ book, the IRS will be put out of business, which is okay with me.

  Grover Norquist

  Book, Men, Python

• Taxes are the killing fields of Democrats.

  Grover Norquist

  Fields, Killing, Democrat

• I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this tragedy and those deaths for his own political desires.

  Grover Norquist

  Cutting, Thinking, Political

• Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.

  Grover Norquist

  Gun, People, Stuff

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