Jack Kemp Quotes

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

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

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

Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

Politicians and economists figure out an elaborate system of tax and economic incentives and then every body else figures out a way to beat it

Capital gains tax reduction is the ultimate now-nowism.

There is no difference, in fairness or economics, between lowering taxes on a favored group and spending money on a favored group.

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

There is spending in the tax code.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it

When you compare the relatively modest tax that will ensue from prohibiting companies from receiving a subsidy and deducting that subsidy, the benefits dramatically outweigh the costs.

It's widely accepted that it is reasonable for a government to use tax policy to change behaviour.

You can't just magically create subsides through executive fiat.

Government can only spend a dollar to help someone when it forcibly takes a dollar from someone else.

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em

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 not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

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.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

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.

So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.