Quotes About Fiscal

The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.

Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.

We did the two-year extension of Bush tax cuts in 2010. We negotiated the Budget Control Act in August of 2011 and the fiscal cliff deal at the end of 2012, which saved 99 percent of Americans from a tax increase.

In 2010 the U.S. will have a payroll tax rate increase, an estate tax increase, and income tax increases. There's also a tax increase coming in 2010 on carried interest. This rate will rise from its current level of 15 percent to 35 percent, and then it will rise again in 2011.

I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.

The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenues: the arithmetic effect and the economic effect.

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.

We want to make sure that tax reform doesn't increase the size of the deficit.

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

The biggest source of getting the country to a balanced budget is not by raising taxes or by cutting spending. It's by encouraging the growth of the economy.

I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes.

I'm not for no taxes. That would be an anarchist. I am for lower taxes.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

I believe Nebraskans appreciate the fiscal discipline I've brought to state government, balancing the budget without raising taxes and prioritizing education funding.

I'm not going to raise taxes.

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

I have been very aggressively campaigning on Kansas needs to cut its taxes.

More people working and paying taxes reduces government expenditures and helps us move a little closer to balance.

Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

I'm a Conservative. I don't believe there should be too many rules. There should be lower taxes.

We have to deal with two issues. Spending and taxes.

If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination.

You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'