Fred DeLuca Quotes

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

If we lower the payroll tax, will Americans let us raise it again? I don't think so.

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

As Ronald Reagan understood, the difference between a good tax structure and a poor one has a very real impact not only on how much money we have in our pockets every April 15th, but whether we have a job to support our families in the first place.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it - as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag by almost half.

Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut they didn't really like and didn't see a tax increase they didn't hate and do everything they could to block.

Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.

I'm not going to raise taxes.

I've made a promise that taxes would be my last resort on issues.

From an emotional standpoint it's very easy to say don't raise taxes, and no one wants to raise taxes.

The easy way out is to increase taxes.

Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.

I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.

I'm always for lower taxes because lower taxes make people want to do things. Less burden, more fun, and economics is about people wanting to have fun. Growth is fun for people in the marketplace.

I will veto any tax increase.

Read my lips: no new taxes.

Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.

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.

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.

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.