Quotes About Prosperity

To me, greatness does not mean mortgaging the future of our middle class by giving tax cuts to our wealthiest citizens.

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.

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

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

You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

We need to lower marginal tax rates and increase investment.

We're going to do tax reform to let people keep more of what they earn, grow an economy, and be able to save for your children's future and buy a new house.

At the end of the day, Republican-driven tax reform is not only going to be good for the economy and for growth. It's going to be good for middle-class Americans.

My No. 1 priority is growth in the economy. Tax reform will be our first and most important part of that.

Nothing says 'economic growth' like fundamental tax reform.

Having a lower tax, simpler, fairer, flatter tax system is something that can drive growth.

I believe reduced spending, lower taxation, and economic growth go hand-in-hand.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.

I'm someone who thinks that the world would be a better place if there was a big middle class. I mean, middle class is peace. In a perfect world, everybody would have enough to eat and we'd be living in security. It's obvious. I'm very happy to pay my taxes and all that. I would say I'm more of a Social Democrat.

Well, I think lower taxes and less regulation would actually promote growth.

You don't boost growth by cutting taxes, you do that by giving money to people.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president.

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.

Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.

Higher taxes still does not create prosperity for all. And, more government still does not grow jobs.

We've created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we're not growing fast, income is not growing.

Our economy grew at double the rate of the nation. We created 1.3 million jobs. We led the nation seven out of those eight years. We were only one of two states that went to AAA bond rating. I cut taxes, $19 billion. If you do that and apply conservative principles the right way, you create an environment where everybody rises up.

I do believe that we need to lower taxes on our hard working Iowans immediately.