Fox Business 2016 GOP primary debate: on Budget & Economy


Carly Fiorina: Cut tax code to 3 pages then budget sensibly

Let us actually reform the tax code from 73,000 pages down to three. There's a 20-year-old plan to do exactly that. And then let us begin to focus on every single dollar the government spends, so that we will spend less overall and still have enough for our priorities. And that requires the government to budget the way you do at home--examine every dollar, cut any dollar, move any dollar. The fancy term for that is zero-based budgeting, but I call it common sense.
Source: Fox Business 2016 Republican Undercard debate Jan 14, 2016

John Kasich: We're nowhere close to a balanced budget; needs 3 things...

It takes three things basically to grow jobs. And I've done it when I was in Washington when we paid down a half-trillion of debt and our economy was growing like crazy. It's the same thing that I did in Ohio. It's a simple formula:
  1. Common sense regulations: we should freeze all federal regulations for one year, except for health and safety.
  2. Tax cuts, because that sends a message to the job creators that things are headed the right way. And if you tax cuts--if you cut taxes for corporations, and you cut taxes for individuals, you're going to make things move, particularly the corporate tax, which is the highest, of course, in the world.
  3. But in addition to that, we have to have fiscal discipline. We have to show that we can march to a balanced budget.
And when you do that, when you're in a position of managing regulations; when you reduce taxes; and when you have fiscal discipline, you see the job creators begin to get very comfortable with the fact that they can invest.
Source: Fox Business 2016 Republican 2-tier debate Jan 14, 2016

Rick Santorum: We need to focus on hard workers who struggle the most

Manufacturing jobs have been lost in this country, 2 million of them. The bottom line is that this president has done more to take jobs away from hard-working people. And that's the 74 percent of Americans who don't have a college degree. Nobody is focused on the people who are struggling the most in America today.
Source: Fox Business 2016 Republican Undercard debate Jan 14, 2016

  • The above quotations are from Fox Business Two-Tier 2016 GOP primary debate
    First Tier: Top Seven by polls
    Second Tier: Three other Republicans    .
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2016 Presidential contenders on Budget & Economy:
  Republicans:
Gov.Jeb Bush(FL)
Dr.Ben Carson(MD)
Gov.Chris Christie(NJ)
Sen.Ted Cruz(TX)
Carly Fiorina(CA)
Gov.Jim Gilmore(VA)
Sen.Lindsey Graham(SC)
Gov.Mike Huckabee(AR)
Gov.Bobby Jindal(LA)
Gov.John Kasich(OH)
Gov.Sarah Palin(AK)
Gov.George Pataki(NY)
Sen.Rand Paul(KY)
Gov.Rick Perry(TX)
Sen.Rob Portman(OH)
Sen.Marco Rubio(FL)
Sen.Rick Santorum(PA)
Donald Trump(NY)
Gov.Scott Walker(WI) 		Democrats:
Gov.Lincoln Chafee(RI)
Secy.Hillary Clinton(NY)
V.P.Joe Biden(DE)
Gov.Martin O`Malley(MD)
Sen.Bernie Sanders(VT)
Sen.Elizabeth Warren(MA)
Sen.Jim Webb(VA)

2016 Third Party Candidates:
Gov.Gary Johnson(L-NM)
Roseanne Barr(PF-HI)
Robert Steele(L-NY)
Dr.Jill Stein(G,MA)
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