Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I suspect my colleague, the senior Senator from Arizona, will have something in response to say to my friend from Iowa. But what I wish to talk about is a comment Secretary of the Treasury Geithner made on television yesterday, in which he said he thought it would be a good idea to raise taxes in this country and that he didn't think income taxes on the higher two of the five tax brackets will hurt economic growth. He also said he supports allowing the top capital gains rate to be increased by 25 percent, from 15 to 20 percent. I want to talk about that for a few minutes today. In this country, we have two goals: job creation and economic growth. We also want to reduce our Federal deficit and ultimately the Federal debt. So how do we promote investment? There are two basic theories. One theory is that if we spend a lot of money that we borrow from countries such as China on programs such as the stimulus program, we can create economic growth and jobs. That has not worked. We have 3 million more people out of work today than when the stimulus package was put into effect. In fact, unemployment was supposed to be 8 percent or so now with the stimulus package, and, of course, it is 9.5 percent and with no relief in sight. The other way to do this is through investment by businesses, both large and small businesses.…”