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The payroll tax holiday has not stimulated job creation
The No. 2 Senate Republican, Jon Kyl, expressed concern on Sunday about President Obama’s proposal to continue a reduction in the Social Security payroll tax and questioned whether the tax cut had fostered the creation of jobs.
I don’t know who those economists are. I just read a piece by a respected economist Art Laffer who says that isn’t true.
At least one Republican leader, Sen. Jon Kyl (Ariz.), has signaled he will oppose extending the tax cut, although he and most other Republicans favor extending the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy
Our Democratic friends ... this was the opportunity to raise taxes, and it didn't matter what we proposed.
' said Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Senate's second-ranking Republican and a member of the supercommittee. ``It didn't matter what we proposed; the price of that was going to be $1.3 trillion in new taxes
The best way to hurt economic growth is to impose more taxes on the people who do the hiring
There is a lot of diplomacy that has to occur and they need to understand that our support for them financially is dependent on their co-operation with us
The answer to both questions is absolutely not
There is a lot of diplomacy that has to occur ... And it has to be tough diplomacy in the sense that they need to understand that our support for them, financially, is dependent on their cooperation with us. But it is not the kind of situation where you can just cut off all assistance, because we do nee...
By taxing the people who provide the jobs, you put off the day we have economic recovery and job creation in this country ... And that's precisely what the Democratic plan would do. It would hit those people, the small businesses who we all acknowledge are the ones who create the jobs coming out of econ...
The problem here is that the payroll tax doesn't go into general revenue, it supports Social Security. And you can't keep extending the payroll tax holiday and have a secure Social Security. That's the first problem
You can’t keep extending the payroll tax holiday and have a secure Social Security
There's a lot of diplomacy that has to occur and it has to be tough diplomacy in the sense that they need to understand that our support for them financially is dependent upon their cooperation with us
The so-called Toomey Plan, which Republicans, all six of us, offered to the Democrats, would specifically have raised tax revenues. It would have raised $250 billion more than the tax reform that would be necessary to reduce the rates and would have applied that to debt reduction. Grover was not happy w...
What is this, high school?
I wouldn’t be optimistic. I don’t want to create any false hope here
Well, again, there’s going to be $1.2 trillion in savings, whether the committee agrees on a method of doing it or it happens automatically ... So this shouldn’t foster a downgrade or run on the market or anything like that — $1.2 trillion in savings occurs one way or the other.
Our Democratic friends were never able to do the entitlement reforms
Our Democratic friends said we won't cut one dollar more without raising taxes ... That tells you a lot about the ethos in Washington. We went into the exercise to try to reduce federal government spending. What we get from the other side is, no, we won't make more cuts unless you raise taxes.
Jon Llewellyn Kyl (born April 25, 1942) is the Republican junior U.S. Senator representing Arizona. He is currently the Senate Minority Whip. Full Article
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 07: U.S. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) (L) and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), members of the House-Senate Conference Committee on how to extend the payroll tax cut, talk with each other during a meeting February 7, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Members of the...
View Photo »Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. , center, accompanied by Sen. Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. , left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. , criticizes Democrats on the deadlocked bi-partisan payroll tax confrence panel, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, during a news conference on Capitol...
View Photo »In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. , attends a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kyl is a member of the House-Senate conference committee working on the extension of the payroll tax break that is also...
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 2: (L to R) U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks as Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) , U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) listen during a news conference on Capitol Hill February 2, 2012 in...
View Photo »Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. , listens during a meeting of the Payroll Tax Conference Committee, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
View Photo »Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. , left, and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. , confer during a meeting of the Payroll Tax conferees, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012.
View Photo »Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (L) talks to a reporter at the U.S. Capitol in Washington December 17, 2011. The U.S. Senate on Saturday passed a $915 billion bill to fund most federal agency activities through next September and avert a government shutdown.
View Photo »Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. , leaves the floor after the Senate passed legislation Saturday extending a Social Security payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for just two months, leaving the stage for another fight in February, at the at the Capitol in Washington, Dec. 17, 2011.
View Photo »Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. , left, and Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala. , confer as Republican Senators emerge from a closed-door negotiation on the payroll tax cut extension and other measures at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011.
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 14: Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) speaks during a news conference about defense spending sequestration at the U.S. Captiol December 14, 2011 in Washington, DC. Kyl and a group of GOP senators announced an effort to prevent across-the-board cuts to...
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 13: U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (3rd L) speaks as (L-R) Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Senate Minority Whip Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ), and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) listen during a news briefing after the weekly Republican policy luncheon...
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 29: (L-R) U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) approach the microphones to talk to the press after the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the U.S. Captiol November 29, 2011 in...
View Photo »Super committee Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) leaves after the meeting between Republican and Democratic members of the 'Super Committee', or Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, on November 21, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Members of the committee have struggled to come up...
View Photo »Senate Minority Whip Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. , member of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, commonly called the Supercommittee, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. If the bipartisan committee fails to reach a deficit-cutting solution...
View Photo »Senate Minority Whip Sen. Jon Kyl, R- Ariz. , member of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, commonly called the Supercommittee, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011.
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 18: Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (C) is surrounded by reporters after leaving a meeting with fellow members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, or 'Supercommittee,' in the U.S. Capitol November 18, 2011 in Washington, DC. With the...
View Photo »Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. , the Senate GOP whip, arrives for a meeting with bi-partisan members of the supercommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011.
View Photo »Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. , the Senate GOP whip, and a member of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, often called the Supercommittee, arrives for a meeting with the bi-partisan members of the committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011.
View Photo »Super committee member Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) talks to reporters after a meeting with Republican committee members on Capitol Hill in Washington November 17, 2011. The special congressional committee is tasked with finding at least $1.2 trillion in budget savings over 10 years, but with...
View Photo »Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. , the Senate GOP whip, heads through the Capitol to a closed-door meeting with other Republican members of the Supercommittee, in Washington, Tuesday morning, Nov. 15, 2011.
View Photo »Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Ariz. , left, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. , right, and others, walk to the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, to deliver a defeat to Democrats and President Obama on the stimulus-style jobs agenda,...
View Photo »Oxfam America activists dressed as members of the Congressional Super Committee, L-R: Sen. John Kyl,R-AZ, Sen. John Kerry,D-MA, and Rep. Dave Camp, R-MI, scratch their 'heads' as they pose October 26, 2011 in front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Oxfam activists adorned with capes...
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 18: Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (2nd R) makes brief remarks during a news conference with (L-R) Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. John Barrosso (R-WY), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. John Thune (R-SD)...
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 18: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (R) talks with reporters after the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon with Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) (C) and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) at the U.S. Capitol October 18, 2011 in Washington, DC. ...
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 18: Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) (2nd L) makes brief remarks after the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (R) at the U.S. Capitol October 18, 2011 in Washington, DC. McConnell said President Barack...
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 07: U.S. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) (L) and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), members of the House-Senate Conference Committee on how to extend the payroll tax cut, talk with each other during a meeting February 7, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Members of the...
View Photo »The payroll tax holiday has not stimulated job creation
The No. 2 Senate Republican, Jon Kyl, expressed concern on Sunday about President Obama’s proposal to continue a reduction in the Social Security payroll tax and questioned whether the tax cut had fostered the creation of jobs.
I don’t know who those economists are. I just read a piece by a respected economist Art Laffer who says that isn’t true.
At least one Republican leader, Sen. Jon Kyl (Ariz.), has signaled he will oppose extending the tax cut, although he and most other Republicans favor extending the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy
Our Democratic friends ... this was the opportunity to raise taxes, and it didn't matter what we proposed.
' said Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, the Senate's second-ranking Republican and a member of the supercommittee. ``It didn't matter what we proposed; the price of that was going to be $1.3 trillion in new taxes
The best way to hurt economic growth is to impose more taxes on the people who do the hiring
There is a lot of diplomacy that has to occur and they need to understand that our support for them financially is dependent on their co-operation with us
The answer to both questions is absolutely not
There is a lot of diplomacy that has to occur ... And it has to be tough diplomacy in the sense that they need to understand that our support for them, financially, is dependent on their cooperation with us. But it is not the kind of situation where you can just cut off all assistance, because we do nee...
By taxing the people who provide the jobs, you put off the day we have economic recovery and job creation in this country ... And that's precisely what the Democratic plan would do. It would hit those people, the small businesses who we all acknowledge are the ones who create the jobs coming out of econ...
The problem here is that the payroll tax doesn't go into general revenue, it supports Social Security. And you can't keep extending the payroll tax holiday and have a secure Social Security. That's the first problem
You can’t keep extending the payroll tax holiday and have a secure Social Security
There's a lot of diplomacy that has to occur and it has to be tough diplomacy in the sense that they need to understand that our support for them financially is dependent upon their cooperation with us
The so-called Toomey Plan, which Republicans, all six of us, offered to the Democrats, would specifically have raised tax revenues. It would have raised $250 billion more than the tax reform that would be necessary to reduce the rates and would have applied that to debt reduction. Grover was not happy w...
What is this, high school?
I wouldn’t be optimistic. I don’t want to create any false hope here
Well, again, there’s going to be $1.2 trillion in savings, whether the committee agrees on a method of doing it or it happens automatically ... So this shouldn’t foster a downgrade or run on the market or anything like that — $1.2 trillion in savings occurs one way or the other.
Our Democratic friends were never able to do the entitlement reforms
Our Democratic friends said we won't cut one dollar more without raising taxes ... That tells you a lot about the ethos in Washington. We went into the exercise to try to reduce federal government spending. What we get from the other side is, no, we won't make more cuts unless you raise taxes.
I can't imagine that, knowing of the importance of national defense, that both Democrats and Republicans wouldn't find a way to work through that process so we still get to $1.2 trillion in cuts, but it doesn't all fall on defense
