Alan Greenspan Quotes

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

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.

Raising taxes does nothing to allow the economy to recover.

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

There are some tax expenditures that are there for very obvious and very important and very good policy reasons. Whether it's the charitable deduction or the deduction for homes, it's not a loophole.

The income tax is flawed for a number of reasons - it discourages economic growth and encourages a bloated government.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.

Effective tax credits are used to create jobs and grow our economy. But tax credits that aren't delivering for Missourians must be retooled and reformed.

I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.

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.

Getting the budget balanced, regulatory reform, tax reform - I think these lead to economic growth.

The linkage between tax rates and public services is, if not non-existent, negative.

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

You don't boost growth by cutting taxes, you do that by giving money to people.

My No. 1 priority is growth in the economy. Tax reform will be our first and most important part of that.

Taxes can set the level of activity around which the economy fluctuates, but they have very little effect on the fluctuations themselves.

Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.

Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

Listen, I think what's best for the economy and to create jobs is to extend all of the current tax rates - for all Americans. It - it begins to reduce the uncertainty. And for small businesspeople, they can look up and begin to plan.

The whole tax code should be looked at, all the way from farm subsidies to carried interest to - to corporate loopholes, because we really need to raise more revenue.

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

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

I think the ethos for Gov. Romney is to use a whole variety of policies, of which tax policy is one, to try to raise the rate of growth. We've had a recovery from the financial crisis that would be well below what one might normally expect for a recovery from such a deep recession. And to counteract that we need better tax policy.