Excise Quotes

There is not a case at present for cutting the petrol excise,

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

State fish and wildlife agencies are pretty much funding themselves. They do a tremendous job on a shoestring budget, but that is very difficult without a reliable funding source. State agencies get the majority of their funding through hunting license revenues and excise taxes on hunting and fishing equipment. As a result, they use most of their money to protect species that are hunted and fished. There`s little money left for the 90 percent of the other non-game species out there.

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

I think it`s probably to do with the fact that the industry itself has some enemies, kind of neo-prohibitionists. There`s always someone trying to basically put us out of business or increase our excise taxes or whatever.

A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn`t because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up, their sales tax went up, and their prices went up and everything else, because we failed to invest in some of these other things we ought to be doing. ... We are squeezing the middle class, we are losing the middle class, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider and wider, not closing as it used to be.