Michele Bachmann Quotes

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.

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.

Capital gains tax reduction is the ultimate now-nowism.

Raising taxes won't create private sector jobs.

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

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.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

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.

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

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

made it a catechism that low taxes solve everything

If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.

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

At the end of the day, Republican-driven tax reform is not only going to be good for the economy and for growth. It's going to be good for middle-class Americans.

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

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a strong start to help Mississippi families keep more of their hard-earned money and to help small businesses create jobs.

Taxes are just too high - that's obviously a priority.

The Trump tax cuts mean business.

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.

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.