72 Quotes by Austan Goolsbee

I think actually the American people are pretty realistic. In polls they ask what do you think of the president's policies. Is he on the right track? They say yes. They ask them how long will it take for the economy to recover. And people are saying two years.

Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.

The president is 100 percent for extending the tax cuts for 98.7 percent of small businesses.

There were 14,000 people at the rally for the president in Ohio. There were another 8,000 people in Virginia. If all 22,000 of those people opened their wallets and gave $1,000 each, that would be less than one donation from a billionaire to the super PACs. And that's why he's in for the fight of his life.

The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It creates an important form of insurance.

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they’re receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it’s not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

I believe – I’m not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this – the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years – since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

I think actually the American people are pretty realistic. In polls they ask what do you think of the president’s policies. Is he on the right track? They say yes. They ask them how long will it take for the economy to recover. And people are saying two years.