• "Everybody does benefit when government takes less from
the people, no matter what their income bracket is, because our
businesses and our families are able to keep more of what they're
earning, reinvest in what they have as priorities. That's how
jobs are created. And that's how we're going to grow our
economy." Palin in a Fox News interview on September 17th 2008.

• Sarah Palin is against raising taxes as she says it will
harm people with small businesses and hurt jobs. She wonders how
people who start new ventures will be any better off if the taxes
are increased.

• Palin was elected as the mayor on the basis of her
promise to encourage economic improvement in the valley town of
Wasilla, Alaska and she kept her promises.  As the Mayor she cut
down property taxes and sales taxes in order to help build an
indoor skating rink and sports complex. She also deposited more
funds towards safety of the public and managed to get a grant to
set up a police dispatch center in the town.

• Palin said that she intends reduce or get rid of taxes
on business license fees and tire taxes stating that after the
citizens, it was the state that the natural resources were the
wealth of the nation.
 
• To help Alaska's families and small businesses, the
backbone of our local economies, I propose to repeal nuisance
taxes, including the tire tax.  We shouldn't make Alaskans pay a
premium to keep families safe driving Alaska's roads. And we'?ll
significantly reduce business license fees." Palin said in her
address to the 24th Alaskan legislature in 2008 January.
		

• Romney is in favor of the Bush support cuts as he says
that these cuts really helped to bring the economy back on track
when the country was going through a bad phase. He stated that "I
have never opposed the Bush 2002 tax cuts. I supported them."
during the 2008 Republican Primary Debate.

• He suggests that the best way to avoid an oncoming
recession is to get a cut on the taxes of the middle class
groups. This means that there will not be any taxes on interest,
dividends or capital gains and will result in more money in the
hands of the middle class. They will in turn put in more capital
into the market which will be available for new ventures and
homes.
 
• He is in favor of reducing the tax burden on middle
income families. The Des Moines Register reported that he said
that ?I don?t stay awake at night about the taxes that rich
people are paying. I am concerned about the taxes that the middle
class families are paying.? during a Republican Debate.
 
• Romney strongly votes for the removal of death tax as he
feels that it makes absolutely no sense in it.
 
• Romney addressing it as ?my pledge? has promised not to
support or reverse the plan to roll income taxes back to 5% by
the next year even if a situation of a budget deficit of $3
billion. 

• Mitt Romney said at a debate in Boca Raton on 24th
January 2008, "I support the Bush tax cuts. The Bush tax cuts
helped get our economy going again when we faced the last tough
times." 

• When asked what his first step would be on the fears of
a recession, he replied that he would try to get a reduction of
taxes on the middle income people of America. He intended that
people earning less that $200,000 per annum would be able to save
money without the burden of taxes.
 
• "Lowering taxes helps build jobs & helps working
families, and so I strongly have been of the view that one of the
great lessons for Ronald Reagan was that lowering taxes helped
built our economy." Fox News NH Republican primary debate on 6th
January 2008.

• On the Death Tax: "It doesn't make sense to me that
people get taxed when they can earn their money, get taxed when
they save their money, and get taxed when they die. We should get
rid of the death tax." Quoted from Romney's book 'The Man, His
Values & His Vision, p115.'

• Romney promised not to stand by a freeze or a turn back
of plans to roll income taxes back to 5% even if there was a
deficit of three million in the budget.
 
• In a debate in South Carolina he said he wanted to make
it very clear that he would not raise taxes.