JOHN F. KENNEDY ON WHY U.S. (STILL) NEEDS TAX CUTS

Forty-nine years ago, with the economy still recovering from a 10-month recession that ended in 1961, President Kennedy sketched out a bold plan to get the economy moving again. It focused on deep, across-the-board cuts in taxes. Those cuts, made after Kennedy's tragic death in November 1963, created a boom that lasted through the 1960s and into the 1970s. Contrast his tax-cutting rhetoric of nearly 50 years ago with today's tax-hiking rhetoric of President Obama and his Democratic colleagues. Following is an abridged version of Kennedy's remarks to the Economic Club of New York on Dec. 15, 1962.

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