Susana Martinez Quotes

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

I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

Let's be clear: raising taxes during a very slow recovery is likely to lead to another recession, and it will do absolutely nothing to balance the budget.

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me.

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.

Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.

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.

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.

I don't want to be partisan here. But please, tell me how you get out of a business recession by raising business taxes and regulations?

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

Raising taxes won't create private sector jobs.

JFK and Reagan's growth model included tax cuts and a steady dollar. Trump has taken a gigantic step toward restoring prosperity with his tax-cut-centered fiscal policy.

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

I have actively opposed every bailout, every rebate check, every so called 'stimulus.'

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

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

The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.

What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.

Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.

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