Kenneth Fisher Quotes

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

There is no serious statistical evidence in support of the view that tax rates at current levels have a major disincentive effect on economic growth.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.

The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

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.

I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.

Every time you exempt a portion of the economy from taxation you put pressure on the rest of the economy.

Capital gains tax reduction is the ultimate now-nowism.

What sensible people want from a tax is to raise as much money as possible with the least disruption to the economy.

made it a catechism that low taxes solve everything

The easy way out is to increase taxes.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

As Ronald Reagan understood, the difference between a good tax structure and a poor one has a very real impact not only on how much money we have in our pockets every April 15th, but whether we have a job to support our families in the first place.

I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

That tax relief can spur the economy and thereby benefit all Americans is something that Washington Democrats used to understand. President Kennedy, for example, aggressively cut taxes after being elected to stimulate the economy as a means of helping all Americans.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes dramatically. And by the end of the decade, revenue coming in the federal government had doubled.

We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.