Jonah Goldberg Quotes

States with high and rising tax burdens are more likely to suffer economic decline; those with low and falling tax burdens are more likely to enjoy strong economic growth.

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.

Over the past 65 years changes in the top tax rate do not appear correlated with economic growth.

We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity.

Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.

We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.

The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero.

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's one of those taxes that most clearly damages economic growth and jobs.

It’s hard for the opposition party to break in when things are going well economically.

Why … should the government tax a retailer that sells soda at a much higher tax rate than a company that makes the soda?.

There is no serious statistical evidence in support of the view that tax rates at current levels have a major disincentive effect on economic growth.

If the United States does well [economically], then the whole world does well.

If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.

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

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

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.

If you look at the performance of the zero-income-tax-rate states and the highest-income-tax-rate states, I believe a large amount of their difference is due to taxes. Not only is it true of the last decade, but I took these numbers back 50 years. And, there's not one year in the last 50 where the zero-income-tax-rate states have not outperformed the highest-income-tax-rate states.

Under my plan, 85 percent of America will pay no tax or have a flat tax at our lowest rate of 15 percent.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.

An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits