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Fifty years ago today, a President, who today would be considered a rightwing free market conservative, was assassinated by a Communist.
The left has tried to rewrite history to portray Kennedy as a Progressive and Oswald as a rightwinger...but that is pathetic spin.
"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both." - JFK
"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed." - JFK
'The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.' - JFK
"Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us." - JFK
"We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work." - JFK
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." - JFK
(The above quotes from Brainyquote)
A bill will be presented to the Congress for action next year. It will include an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in both corporate and personal income taxes. It will include long-needed tax reform that logic and equity demand The billions of dollars this bill will place in the hands of the consumer and our businessmen will have both immediate and permanent benefits to our economy. Every dollar released from taxation that is spent or invested will help create a new job and a new salary. And these new jobs and new salaries can create other jobs and other salaries and more customers and more growth for an expanding American economy.
Aug. 13, 1962, radio and television report on the state of the national economy
This administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes Next years tax bill should reduce personal as well as corporate income taxes, for those in the lower brackets, who are certain to spend their additional take-home pay, and for those in the middle and upper brackets, who can thereby be encouraged to undertake additional efforts and enabled to invest more capital I am confident that the enactment of the right bill next year will in due course increase our gross national product by several times the amount of taxes actually cut.
Nov. 20, 1962, news conference
It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.
Nov. 20, 1962, presidents news conference (same conference as above)
Our present tax system exerts too heavy a drag on growth It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking The present tax load distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoid tax liabilities.
Nov. 20, 1962, press conference (again, same conference as above)
Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased not a reduced flow of revenues to the federal government.
Jan. 17, 1963, annual budget message to the Congress, fiscal year 1964
In todays economy, fiscal prudence and responsibility call for tax reduction even if it temporarily enlarges the federal deficit why reducing taxes is the best way open to us to increase revenues.
Jan. 21, 1963, annual message to the Congress: The Economic Report Of The President
It is no contradiction the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in todays economy is to raise consumption by major reduction of individual income tax rates.
Jan. 21, 1963, annual message to the Congress: The Economic Report Of The President (same as above)
The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.
Jan. 23, 1963, special message to Congress on tax reduction and reform
Our tax system still siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power and reduces the incentive for risk, investment and effort thereby aborting our recoveries and stifling our national growth rate.
Jan. 24, 1963, message to Congress on tax reduction and reform, House Doc. 43, 88th Congress, 1st Session.
The largest single barrier to full employment of our manpower and resources and to a higher rate of economic growth is the unrealistically heavy drag of federal income taxes on private purchasing power, initiative and incentive.
Jan. 24, 1963, special message to Congress on tax reduction and reform (same as above)...
Jack Kennedy and the Democratic Party that he would not today know - Washington DC Political Buzz | Examiner.com
The left has tried to rewrite history to portray Kennedy as a Progressive and Oswald as a rightwinger...but that is pathetic spin.
"Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both." - JFK
"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed." - JFK
'The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.' - JFK
"Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us." - JFK
"We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work." - JFK
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." - JFK
(The above quotes from Brainyquote)
A bill will be presented to the Congress for action next year. It will include an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in both corporate and personal income taxes. It will include long-needed tax reform that logic and equity demand The billions of dollars this bill will place in the hands of the consumer and our businessmen will have both immediate and permanent benefits to our economy. Every dollar released from taxation that is spent or invested will help create a new job and a new salary. And these new jobs and new salaries can create other jobs and other salaries and more customers and more growth for an expanding American economy.
Aug. 13, 1962, radio and television report on the state of the national economy
This administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes Next years tax bill should reduce personal as well as corporate income taxes, for those in the lower brackets, who are certain to spend their additional take-home pay, and for those in the middle and upper brackets, who can thereby be encouraged to undertake additional efforts and enabled to invest more capital I am confident that the enactment of the right bill next year will in due course increase our gross national product by several times the amount of taxes actually cut.
Nov. 20, 1962, news conference
It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.
Nov. 20, 1962, presidents news conference (same conference as above)
Our present tax system exerts too heavy a drag on growth It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking The present tax load distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoid tax liabilities.
Nov. 20, 1962, press conference (again, same conference as above)
Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased not a reduced flow of revenues to the federal government.
Jan. 17, 1963, annual budget message to the Congress, fiscal year 1964
In todays economy, fiscal prudence and responsibility call for tax reduction even if it temporarily enlarges the federal deficit why reducing taxes is the best way open to us to increase revenues.
Jan. 21, 1963, annual message to the Congress: The Economic Report Of The President
It is no contradiction the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in todays economy is to raise consumption by major reduction of individual income tax rates.
Jan. 21, 1963, annual message to the Congress: The Economic Report Of The President (same as above)
The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions.
Jan. 23, 1963, special message to Congress on tax reduction and reform
Our tax system still siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power and reduces the incentive for risk, investment and effort thereby aborting our recoveries and stifling our national growth rate.
Jan. 24, 1963, message to Congress on tax reduction and reform, House Doc. 43, 88th Congress, 1st Session.
The largest single barrier to full employment of our manpower and resources and to a higher rate of economic growth is the unrealistically heavy drag of federal income taxes on private purchasing power, initiative and incentive.
Jan. 24, 1963, special message to Congress on tax reduction and reform (same as above)...
Jack Kennedy and the Democratic Party that he would not today know - Washington DC Political Buzz | Examiner.com
