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" The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending. "
Grover Norquist
Taxes
Too Much
Government
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" People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it. "
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" When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist. "
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" Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again. "
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" Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase. "
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" My ideal citizen is the self-employed, homeschooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. "
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" What's hurting the U.S. economy is total government spending. The deficit is an indicator that the government is spending so much money that it can't even get around to stealing all of the money that it wants to spend. But the tip of the iceberg is not what hit the Titanic - it was the 90 percent of the iceberg under water. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand. "
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" 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. "
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" The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government. "
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Size
" 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. "
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Down
Government
" I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it. "
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Really
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" Spending an extra dollar on the D.C. public school system isn't spending an extra dollar on education. Spending an extra dollar with the Pentagon doesn't buy you an extra dollar on defense. Republicans need to look skeptically at military spending. "
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Need
You
School
" We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country, or not. I think at some point, we may decide that we don't have to have that size military and cost footprint in the country. You look at what you want to accomplish, how many soldiers you need. "
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Think
Conversation
America
" Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more people are able to take care of themselves. "
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Government
Find
" If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources. "
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Other
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" Everyone would have bigger and safer cars if they didn't have those CAFE standards: corporate average fuel economy. "
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Economy
Average
Bigger
" Tax reductions are usually simpler and less distortive. I'm certainly willing to look at getting rid of tax deductions/credits, and go to dramatically reduced rates. "
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Rid
Tax
Willing
" 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. "
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Security
People
Own
" 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. "
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" Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty. "
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" I was an anti-communist before I was political in other ways. "
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Before
Other
" Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government. "
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" 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. "
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Democrats
Down
" The statists want to control the economy. "
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Economy
Want
" Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible. "
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Possible
Opposition
" 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. "
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Long
Money
" 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. "
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Going
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