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I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners, is a recipe for economic growth.

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

We need to lower marginal tax rates and increase investment.

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

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

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.

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.

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.