American Quote by Barney Frank

After 2003, we lowered taxes across the board. And by 2004, revenue to the federal government grew. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan cut taxes…

— Pat Toomey

Every time we've had a pro-growth fundamental tax reform, be it under President Reagan, President Kennedy - you can even go all the way…

— Jeb Hensarling

The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax…

— Carly Fiorina

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

— Pete Sessions

It is a myth that higher taxes lead to less demand and slower growth. In the first three decades after World War II, US…

— Robert Reich

Tax increases slow economic growth. Why would you raise taxes? We need to reform spending, the tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities can never…

— Grover Norquist

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. Since most of our exogenous tax changes are…

— Christina Romer

“high taxation was not regarded in these years as an affront. On the contrary, steep rates of progressive income tax were seen as a…

— Tony Judt

I believe that there should be a very much heavier progressive tax on very large incomes, a tax which should increase in a very…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.

— Winnie Byanyima

Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax…

— Mike Pence

President Trump's record of tax reform and deregulation powered the American economy to the fastest real wage increases in a generation.

— Scott Bessent