The payroll tax is affecting sales. It's causing sales declines.
If we lower the payroll tax, will Americans let us raise it again? I don't think so.
The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.
I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.
It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty.
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.
Full and immediate expensing is widely recognized as one of the most pro-growth tax policies around.
We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze on property taxes.
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.
As president, Trump's economic proposals will bend our very economy and tax system to his purposes.
Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.
The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code.
In almost every case, whenever a tariff or quota is imposed on imports, that tax is strongly supported by the domestic industry getting the protective shield from lower-priced foreign competition. The sugar industry supports sugar tariffs; textile mills lobby for tariffs on foreign clothing.
Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.
During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.
The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.
Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.
The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
