The Jack Kemp Foundation

The Jack Kemp Foundation Our mission is to develop, engage and recognize exceptional leaders who champion the American Idea.

Comprised of the Kemp Legacy Project, the Kemp Leadership Academy and the Kemp Forum, each of our programs is intended to foster the spirit of leadership that Jack Kemp demonstrated. By expanding the impact of powerful ideas on public policy, we seek to prepare the next generation of leaders to convert principled ideas into action.

07/13/2024

another great one.....thanks Firing Line with Margaret Hoover for these clips!

07/13/2024

89 years ago today, Jack Kemp was born in Los Angeles, CA. We are grateful for his life and love of country that was in the marrow of his bones. His words in 1987 remain true today. Happy birthday Jack, we are grateful for you and remember your vision for our nation raising our sights and reminding us of our better angels. Let's each do our part to advance the American Idea Jack explained so well.

05/26/2024

Note to Argentina's Javier Milei:
"Henry Wallich, in his book about the West German economic miracle, pointed out that people overnight in June of 1948, as Ludwig Erhard implemented the Deutsche Mark, that people began to see recovery immediately. Now, you can't build a steel mill immediately, but you can restore hope immediately. And overnight, when Erhard established the Deutsche Mark, anchored to gold, stabilized against the US dollar, committed himself to entrepreneurial capitalism as a way of recovery for West Germany, the economy began to grow immediately."





03/30/2024

“We must remember once again that trade is not between nations, it’s between people. And anything that reduces tariffs and duties, that stabilizes property rights, that recognizes intellectual properties, is enhancing the opportunity for America to be more competitive.”

03/22/2024

“If we achieve the levels of growth in this country that we could achieve, it would not be long - estimates are 11 to 12 years to double the size of the gross national product. Revenues would be a trillion dollars higher, from an economy double the size of our $6 trillion economy today.”

03/09/2024

"Fiscal policy should be aimed at stabilizing spending or freezing it, with tax rates coming down."

02/26/2024

"It's interesting to me that the Democratic platform in 1960, when John F Kennedy was running for president, pledged to the American people to keep the dollar as good as gold. There were a lot of people who worried in 1960 that the Democratic platform would call for a devaluation. John F Kennedy was very concerned about that. So he said publicly, and the Democratic platform explicitly suggested, that they would defend the dollar price of gold at $35 an ounce and keep it as good as gold. Very interesting in terms of the fact that he also talked about ultimately cutting tax rates, and that was the birth, not only of his tax cut, but the Kemp-Roth Reagan tax cuts of 1981."

02/08/2024

"We believe countries and nations can grow and achieve high levels of employment, output, and productivity with low rates of inflation and high rates of employment opportunities if monetary policy is stable and predictable, when the dollar or the currency is anchored, in this case to gold, and tax rates are low."

01/19/2024

“There is no doubt in anyone’s mind, at least on the center-right of the political spectrum, that World War II was, in large part, brought on by the devastating economic policies of the late 1920s and early 1930s.

“The Great Depression in Europe, particularly in Germany, and Japan, led to military governments. They were seeking to expand their influence and their territory at the expense of their neighbors.

“So, in order to avoid, after World War II, the policies that led to these terrible blunders and ultimately world war, the leaders of the free world, particularly of the UK and US, got together in Bretton Woods, NH, starting July 1, 1944, to discuss how to avoid the mistakes that were made in the 1930s, how to bring the world together, how to construct a new international monetary and trading regime.

“The agreement at Bretton Woods, in my opinion, ushered in a period of unprecedented economic growth and opportunity for the Western world. Trade grew for over 40 years at 7% per annum. During the BW era from ’47 to ’67, the war-torn nations of Britain, Germany, France and Japan averaged real GDP growth rates of nearly 6.5%. Inflation was about 3.5%. Unemployment averaged 2%. The United States economy grew an average of near 4%, with only 2.5% average inflation, and unemployment rate of 4.5%. Interest rates were low and stable.”

01/12/2024

“We know we will be ridiculed, no doubt about it. I was on the David Brinkley Show a few Sundays ago and our friend Sam Donaldson said, ‘Kemp, do you still want to go back to the Gold Standard?”

01/08/2024

“The breakdown of monetary stability and the monetary regime that was set up at Bretton Woods in 1944 was a lesson to this country and the world in what not to do…. there are certain inalterable rules of economics that cannot be broken without severe consequences to the populace.”

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