Glenn Hubbard Quotes

There will be a big tax cut for the middle class. But any tax cuts we have for the upper class will be offset by less deductions that will pay for it.

I will cut all state taxes by at least one third.

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

And the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

Tax reductions are usually simpler and less distortive. I'm certainly willing to look at getting rid of tax deductions/credits, and go to dramatically reduced rates.

Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician.

If someone's getting a tax cut, I'm not upset that they're getting a tax cut. I'm really not upset.

Arthur Laffer's idea, that lowering taxes could increase revenues, was logically correct. If tax rates are high enough, then people will go to such lengths to avoid them that cutting taxes can increase revenues. What he was wrong about was in thinking that income tax rates were already so high in the 1970s that cutting them would raise revenues.

The critical thing is that we have to reduce the tax burden.

Reduced marginal tax rates on individuals and business fosters growth every time.

We need to lower marginal tax rates and increase investment.

Our first priority is to cut taxes.

We need to restore the Bush tax cuts or actually make them permanent.

Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.

I strongly support tax relief for the middle class.

It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.