Joni Ernst Quotes

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

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

Advocates of a tax overhaul often point to the 1986 act as a model for a comprehensive approach that ushered in a long period of economic growth.

Raising taxes won't create private sector jobs.

I wanted nothing more than to vote for a tax plan that would put more money in the pockets of overburdened taxpayers and spur job creation.

Conservatives in Government must make the case that lowering the tax burden boosts economic growth and leads to an increase in tax revenues.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

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.

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

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.

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

The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.

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

Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.

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.

Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.

If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.

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

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

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.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

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 am for lowering taxes.