Jeb Bush Quotes

What hinders the middle class the most is taxes, and what hinders business from creating jobs and moving people into the middle class are regulations.

Nonstop taxes killed the middle class.

Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for a greater dependency on government.

We will be returning to historical levels of inequality. We'll view post-war America as a kind of strange interlude not to be repeated. It won't be the dreams that we all had that virtually all incomes go up in lockstep at three percent a year. It hurts to give that up.

Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.

Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom.

The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Median compensation in America has been stagnant over 25 of the last 30 years, the only exceptions being the last 5 years of the 1990s.

In too many ways, Ohio is being run for the benefit of those who have already made it, and too many of our friends and neighbors are being left behind. Nowhere is this more evident than in the cuts to police officers, firefighters, nurses, teachers, and to our local schools, while property and sales taxes are going up.

Income splitting benefits only fifteen per cent, mostly the wealthiest Canadians, but it's paid for by everyone.

I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a stronger and bigger government.

Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.

The 'progressive' tax-and-spend agenda has been put on trial. The policies not only lead to much slower growth but also benefit the rich and politically well-connected at the expense of everyone else.

Misguided economic and tax policies have hampered growth, allowing the rich to become richer while turning the middle class into the working poor.

The average household income has really stagnated since 1971.

Subsidising inefficient businesses does not encourage them to become more competitive and means that extra money has to be taken from tax payers for the same result. Inevitably, this reduces the total size of the economy and lowers living standards.

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.

If you stimulate the economy by means of a tax cut, the people that you tend to be benefiting are the better off.

The trajectory of this country [USA] is not positive and particularly for the disadvantaged, as we see what's happening. The gains in productivity have dropped, the gains in income for the middle class and the least advantaged have slowed, at best.

We're the highest taxed nation in the world. Our middle class is just reeling from the taxes. And you know, if you think about it, the middle class and the workers of this country, who really built the country, they haven't had a raise in 12 years. They're making less now actually - to be even worse about it, they're making less now than they did 12 years ago.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.