George Voinovich Quotes

You can always raise taxes on the rich, but that will not solve the deficit problem.

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

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.

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

Raising taxes won't create private sector jobs.

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

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

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.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

Never before in the history of civilization has there been a tax cut in time of war.

A long term tax cut is not a tax cut at all unless it is accompanied by a spending cut.

Anybody can balance a budget if they raise taxes.

I am a supply sider. If you cut the right taxes, you will make more money.

Sometimes, tax rate increases create the very problems that the spending is intended to cure. In other words, the tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all things government is trying to alleviate with spending.

Trump has a pro-economic-growth tax plan, and we are sensitive to the cost of that plan.

The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.

We sincerely believed that we don't tax too little in Washington. We spend too much.

We want to make sure that tax reform doesn't increase the size of the deficit.

More taxes mean more money to spend for public welfare.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.

But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.

Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.

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.