These tax-cut proposals are especially encouraging. Cutting taxes on workers and businesses creates jobs.

Because you cut taxes, working people are better off. Let's keep it up.

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.

Allowing taxes to go up on all Americans would have raised taxes by $3,000 for a typical American family. And that could cost our economy well over a million jobs.

We can create many local jobs if all retailers were to take advantage of local capacity. We have willing workers and idle industrial capacity.

Laying-off permanent workers is so difficult and costly that companies have a strong preference for temp jobs, even if it is at the expense of productivity. When labor protection has become excessive and unaffordable, as it is in France, labor market institutions must be reformed.