Rick Perry Quotes

You pay more in wages, get more in in tax, you get people living a higher standard, you get more money. It's a kind of circle.

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

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

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

I think we need to have competitive tax rates in order to create jobs in this country. And I think it should be fair.

What we lack is a good, strong business climate with lower taxes, fairer regulation.

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.

To jump-start our economy, we must leave cash in your hands - because if you've got money in your pocket, you'll spend it at the hardware store or the corner market, and that will drive job growth in our private sector.

The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.

The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy.

Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.

And I think the more money you put in people's hands, the more they will spend. And if they don't spend it, they invest it. And investing it is another way of creating jobs. It puts money into mutual funds or other kinds of banks that can go out and make loans, and we need to do that.

There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.

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.

When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains.

I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.

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

Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn't work.

I will improve the economy. At least, I think I can.

The American economy must be altered to put business back in the driver's seat. The correct role for finance is to support job creation.

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

One of the best ways to grow this economy is to put money in people's pockets.

Mr. Trump has said he strongly supports immediate expensing of capital expenditures, which many economists agree would encourage growth.

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