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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long.
- Nov 07, 2020
Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are willing to stick to a strong pro-life position aren't going to be pushed off a strong anti-tax position. For people who like to think in ideologically cohesive ways, it makes no sense, but that's the way it is.
- Damages
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged. It's one of those taxes that most clearly damages economic growth and jobs.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it.
- Less
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- Nov 07, 2020
Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our job is to make people free.
- Drown
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- Nov 07, 2020
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want to reduce the size of government in half as a percentage of GNP over the next 25 years. We want to reduce the number of people depending on government so there is more autonomy and more free citizens.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obsessions turn people off.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The statists want to control the economy.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit.
- Lawyers
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- Nov 07, 2020
We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers' unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read murder mysteries. I exercise 40 minutes a day. I watch videotapes while I exercise. I listen to audiotapes when I am in my car. And I try to stay in three different centuries.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the parties would brand themselves the way Coke and Pepsi and other products do so that you knew what you were buying, it had quality control. I vote for the Republican. He or she will not raise my taxes. I'll buy one. I'll take that one home.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy. The left wants to focus on the deficit so they can take us away from the focus on spending as a percentage of the economy.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as we're focused on spending, there are only two ways to do that: One is spend less, and Democrats have no solutions for that. Or we have pro-growth policies that make the economy grow so the dead-weight cost of government becomes a smaller percentage of the economy and therefore less expensive.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.
- Saying
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are several reasons to oppose tax increases. First, every dollar of tax increase is a dollar you didn't get in spending restraint. Two, if you walk into the Democrats' Andrews-Air-Force-Base, Lucy-with-the-Football trick for the third time in a row - they don't have have a saying for being fooled three times!
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised. Obama and the Democrats have a fight with the American people, not with me.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I run a taxpayer group - the most powerful guy in D.C., nonsense. OK? There are buildings with thousands of people in them, all lobbying for more spending and higher levels of spending and more government commitments. And there are a handful - a handful of groups that fight for less spending.
- Damages
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very important to always make sure that you're talking to the entire coalition and to as many Americans as possible; not to go chasing after one little group or another. The Democrats would bring new groups into their party and not notice that larger groups are going out the back door.
- American Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.
- Bureaucracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they're natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama has been perhaps the most partisan President since Truman. He hasn't learned to be civil - note his insulting speech to Paul Ryan, who did us the courtesy of scoring a budget. The president has to talk to Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has reached the debt ceiling before anyone expected.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obama is a guy who claims to be unaware that there was a Tea Party, a guy that's detached from the country.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should reduce total government spending as a percentage of the economy.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot allow anything that's called 'national defense' to justify any and all spending. We need to be very, very careful that we don't overspend and say, 'Oh, that's defense,' when perhaps it isn't.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a Federal government that does what the government needs to do and stops doing what the government ought not to be doing.
- Business Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come to this country, and so the business community is for immigration. Big businesses, small businesses, high-tech, low-tech, the communities of faith, and the Republican leadership.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future of the Republican Party, all the different folks looking to lead the Republican Party at the national level in the future, recognize we should do immigration reform.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you feel the government should leave you alone, you're a Republican. If you think the job of the government is to go push people around and take things for you, then you're a Democrat.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're so committed to liberty that you see the Soviet Union as a threat, you're a Republican. If you're kind of indifferent to freedom and the level of the lack of freedom in the Soviet Union is just a question of extent and not really threatening to anybody, then you're a Democrat.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith. And because the Democratic Party was taken over by the aggressive secular guys, they became hostile not just to conservative Catholics and evangelical Christians, but Orthodox Jews and Muslims and Mormons.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reforming Social Security to make it fully funded and independently held, that's compassionate because it allows people to control their own lives; cutting taxes on families and all Americans to let people have more control over their lives.
- Examining
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spending is not caring. Spending is what politicians do instead of caring. Spending more does not guarantee success. Politicians like to measure spending because it is easier than measuring actual metrics of accomplishment.
- Cut
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someday I hope Americans will not believe that anyone had to spend his or her days fighting for limited government because everyone they know wants maximum freedom and minimum statism.
- Coercive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Democratic Party is made up of trial lawyers, labor unions, government employees, big city political machines, the coercive utopians, the radical environmentalists, feminists, and others who want to restructure society with tax dollars and government fiat.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smaller government, more individual responsibility, more individual control creates more Republicans. More state power and ownership and control and top-down decision-making creates more Democrats.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have to change the law to get more money, that's a tax increase, and Americans for Tax Reform supports all efforts of tax reform, getting rid of deductions or credits, or something that's misclassified, as long as you at the same time reduce rates so that it's not a hidden tax.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.
- American Taxpayers
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020