Sam Brownback Quotes

I would like to get the tax rate as low as possible so that businesses want to create jobs here.

We’ve got to stop supporting big business with corporate welfare and do something for small business which creates most of our new jobs.

Governments spend all their time trying to get big companies to relocate their headquarters, and they end up subsidizing the move with tax breaks. And companies that relocate their headquarters are often not meaningful job creators.

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

I do not want to impose additional taxes on the employers at a time when our economy is very fragile and we want to encourage them to hire.

We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

History shows that it's not smart for states to pay more to get jobs; you just get into the race to the bottom.

Politicians like to talk about incentives - for businesses to relocate, for example, or to get folks to buy local.

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

I'm sort of suspicious of most economic development projects, but the ones that encourage taxpayer-funded relocation bidding wars should be declared unconstitutional.

Successfully bringing jobs home requires serious policy and reforms that make America the place businesses want to plant and grow. You can't punish business into doing the things you want.

Mom and pop shops paying taxes while Amazon got billions just to come to town didn't seem right, and, post-FoxxConn, people are less likely to fall for the promised jobs numbers.

People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.

There is nothing better than just policies that say, 'Come on: grow your jobs here.'

We must deregulate, we must provide an investment climate by giving incentives.

We're going to cut corporate taxes, which will bring huge amounts of jobs back to the United States.

I sit in the Senate, and see what Republicans are often advocating, it's those kind of tax loopholes for the richest of the rich or, frankly, for corporations and giving incentives for them to move jobs and opportunity overseas.

When you raise taxes on small business, from 35% to 40%, you will kill jobs.

The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

Americans deserve a simple, fairer, and flatter tax code that jumpstarts our economy, helps create jobs, and makes America a leader again.

Obama's gonna play Santa Claus with the minimum wage. He's got no successes to brag about. He cannot talk about a robust job market. In fact, the very fact he's talking about the minimum wage is evidence there is no robust job market.

Americans underemployed or unemployed and a President Trump will put them back to work.

The borrow-spend-and-centralize agenda that has been so destructive to job creation elsewhere in America has been a gravy boat inside the Beltway.

If we could get the corporate tax rate down to, let's say, a maximum of 25 percent, it would be a sea change for this country. It would be great.

We can have more jobs in small businesses if 'Obamacare' is eliminated.