An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital from static to more dynamic situations,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If the economy of today were operating close to capacity levels with little unemployment, or if a sudden change in our military… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget…As the national income grows, the federal… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In those countries where income taxes are lower than in the United States, the ability to defer the payment of U.S. tax… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We also need the provisions in the tax bill that will permit working mothers to increase the deduction from income tax liability… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget. Every taxpayer and his family will… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our true choice is not between tax reduction on the one hand and the avoidance of large federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget, just… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation for these day-care centers, which seems to me to be money very wisely spent, and also under consideration of the tax bill, that we can consider the needs of the working mothers, and both of these will be… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
[High income tax rates] not only check consumption but discourage investment and encourage...the avoidance of taxes [rather] than the production of goods.[...]Our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When consumers purchase more goods, plants use more of their capacity, men are hired instead of laid off, investment increases, and profits… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation for these day-care centers, which seems to me to be money very wisely spent, and also under consideration of the tax bill, that we can consider the needs of the working mothers, and both of these will be… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance to develop their talents. We cannot say to ten percent of the population that you can't have that right; that your children cannot have the chance to develop whatever talents they have; that the only way… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share