Austan Goolsbee Quotes

We want to keep a preferred rate for capital gains - we think it is important to encourage investment.

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.

I plan to lower corporate taxes to create an environment that encourages companies to invest more.

Taxes can set the level of activity around which the economy fluctuates, but they have very little effect on the fluctuations themselves.

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.

I do not want to impose additional taxes on the employers at a time when our economy is very fragile and we want to encourage them to hire.

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.

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

In 2001, Congress passed much needed tax relief to allow Americans to keep more of their hard earned money and spend it as they see fit - rather than how the federal government sees fit.

Tax can be structured in a way that actually encourages investment in infrastructure and encourages investment in Australia from overseas.

The key to revenue growth is tax reform that closes loopholes and that is pro-growth. Then with a growing economy, that's where your revenue growth comes in, not from higher taxes.

I do believe in tax incentives in order to move the economy forward.

Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community.

I am a supply sider. If you cut the right taxes, you will make more money.

A temporary reduction in tax rates on individual incomes can be a powerful weapon against recession.

Raising taxes does nothing to allow the economy to recover.

Trump's corporate tax reform would restore America's position as the most hospitable investment climate in the world. For a change, businesses and their cash would come back home.

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

We need to lower marginal tax rates and increase investment.

We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in 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.

We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity.

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

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.

Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.