Gail Collins Quotes

I firmly believe that the best way to stimulate our economy and create jobs is to let hard-working Americans keep more of their money - after all, the money belongs to them, not to Washington.

Tax breaks can serve a vital role in keeping and bringing jobs to our state; however, without accountability, they are little more than loopholes at taxpayers' expense.

Governments spend all their time trying to get big companies to relocate their headquarters, and they end up subsidizing the move with tax breaks. And companies that relocate their headquarters are often not meaningful job creators.

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'm always for lower taxes because lower taxes make people want to do things. Less burden, more fun, and economics is about people wanting to have fun. Growth is fun for people in the marketplace.

You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.

Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets.

Making the tax cuts permanent will continue to grow the economy, create jobs, and put more money in the pockets of the hard-working families of Pennsylvania.

Politicians like to talk about incentives - for businesses to relocate, for example, or to get folks to buy local.

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.

I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

Want of Money in a Country discourages Labouring and Handicrafts Men (which are the chief Strength and Support of a People) from coming to settle in it, and induces many that were settled to leave the Country, and seek Entertainment and Employment in other Places, where they can be better paid …. A Plentiful Currency will encourage great Numbers of Labouring and Handicrafts Men to come and Settle in the Country

I would like to get the tax rate as low as possible so that businesses want to create jobs here.

Mom and pop shops paying taxes while Amazon got billions just to come to town didn't seem right, and, post-FoxxConn, people are less likely to fall for the promised jobs numbers.

The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.

Governors compete. States compete. People & businesses decide.

I don't believe other states should be in the business of luring production out of California. We've made it clear that no one is going to out-compete California.

Taxing corporations means unnecessarily burdening our wealth-creating machines.

What you do by having an income tax rate reduction across the board, you really provide great incentives for people to work, produce, and increase output. So I would support a carbon tax in replacement for a progressive income tax.

If we think that high marginal tax rates are bad because they distort incentives, the same is then true for tax subsidies.

There is nothing better than just policies that say, 'Come on: grow your jobs here.'

Tax reform done right will improve incentives to invest in U.S. production and to repatriate profits.