Jacob J. Lew Quotes

The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it - as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag by almost half.

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.

Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.

You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

If we lower the payroll tax, will Americans let us raise it again? I don't think so.

I'm not going to raise taxes.

I've made a promise that taxes would be my last resort on issues.

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

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.

I will cut all state taxes by at least one third.

I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.

Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut they didn't really like and didn't see a tax increase they didn't hate and do everything they could to block.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

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.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

Lowering taxes without pain or costs were the ultimate Economic Utopia

There's a lot of evidence you can sell people on tax increases if they think its an investment.

Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician.

Taxes are always too high.

It is essential to reduce taxes on employment and wealth creation in order to enhance our economy's competitiveness. But I don't think it's sensible today to write a Conservative budget … with specific pledges on tax reduction.

The easiest votes I ever cast were the votes to cut taxes. The hardest votes I had to cast were to raise taxes.

The easiest things to do in Congress are to cut taxes and raise spending.