Ken Jennings Quotes

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

We need to restore the Bush tax cuts or actually make them permanent.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn't make sense.

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.

I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.

Having won re-election convincingly and against the economic odds, President Obama quickly made good on his promise of maintaining taxes as they are for the middle class while raising them on the wealthiest Americans.

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.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last thing America needs is more of the Democrats' class warfare that has left our economy a barren landscape.

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

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.

A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.

I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts.

North Carolina needs to revamp the tax code completely. We have some of the highest tax rates, like the corporate tax rate, in the country.

As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.

In 2001, Republicans used reconciliation to pass President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut that mainly benefited the wealthy.

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

We have points in common with the FDP, particularly when it comes to tax.

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