Hillary Clinton Quotes About Taxes

• Trickle-down did not work. It got us into the mess we were in, in 2008 and 2009. Slashing taxes on the wealthy hasn’t worked. And a lot of really smart, wealthy people know that. And they are saying, hey, we need to do more to make the contributions we should be making to rebuild the middle class.

  Hillary Clinton

  Taxes, Working It, Wealthy

  "Presidential debate transcript: Trump and Clinton, verbatim" by Evan Vucci and Julio Cortez, www.macleans.ca. September 26, 2016.

• Many of you are well enough off that... the tax cuts may have helped you... We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, America, Giving

  Hillary Clinton's speech to a crowd of financial donors at a fundraiser for Senator Barbara Boxer in San Francisco, June 28, 2004.

• I believe capital gains, for the most part, should be taxed the same way we tax income from hard work, sweat, and toil. And if we do those things, we can be a country that actually can afford debt-free college again.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Believe, Hard Work

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• I served on the budget committee in the Senate, and I remember as vividly as if it were yesterday when we had a hearing in which Alan Greenspan came and justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt - outrageous in my view.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Views, Yesterday

• What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Would Be, Gains, Economy

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

• We need to have a tax system that rewards work and not just financial transactions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Needs, Rewards, Financial

  Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

• A Wall Street money manager should not be able to pay a lower tax rate than a teacher or a nurse.

  Hillary Clinton

  Teacher, Wall, Nurse

  Source: time.com

• Donald Trump would end up raising taxes on middle-class families.

  Hillary Clinton

  Class, Ends, Middle

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

• I believe American corporations that have gotten so much from our country should be just as patriotic in return. Many of them are, but too many aren't. It's wrong to take tax breaks with one hand and give out pink slips with the other. And I believe Wall Street can never, ever be allowed to wreck Main Street again.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Wall, Believe

  Source: www.truth-out.org

• Seen in the context of Donald Trump having committed sales tax fraud in the past, which is indisputable, I think that it's reasonable for the American public to ask, did you go beyond what's lawful, maybe scandalously lawful, but lawful, and violate the law?

  Hillary Clinton

  Past, Thinking, Fraud

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I'm not going to tell people that I will raise your incomes and not your taxes, and not mean it, because I don't want to see the kind of struggle that the middle class is going through exemplified by these promises that would raise taxes and make it much more difficult for many, many Americans to get ahead and stay ahead. That is not my agenda.

  Hillary Clinton

  Struggle, Mean, Class

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

• The kind of plan that Donald [Tramp] has put forth would be trickle-down economics all over again. In fact, it would be the most extreme version, the biggest tax cuts for the top percent of the people in this country than we've ever had.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Cutting, People

  Source: time.com

• Our largest companies should not be able to get away with paying hardly anything at all. It is insulting when they engage in these games like moving their headquarters over to a foreign country, on paper, not in reality, just to take advantage of lower tax breaks.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Moving, Reality

  Source: time.com

• I will not raise taxes on anyone making $250,000 or less.

  Hillary Clinton

  Taxes, Raises

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

• Maybe Donald Trump doesn't want the American people to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes, because the only years that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax.

  Hillary Clinton

  Couple, People, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Donald Trump participated in something known as the empty box scam. He bought $65,000 worth of jewelry from Bulgari across the street from Trump Tower, and had the record show that it was mailed to him in an out-of-state address. Now, if you're not a New York resident, you may not have to pay sales tax if the jewelry is mailed to you in another state. The problem is, they were empty boxes. It was proven.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jewelry, Problem, Empty

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Look at what I am proposing, and we [wih Bernie Sanders] have a vigorous agreement here. We both want to reign in the excesses of Wall Street. I also want to reign in the excesses of Johnson Controls that we bailed out when they were an autoparts company, and we saved the auto industry, and now they want to avoid paying taxes.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, Agreement, Want

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• For 40 years, everyone running for president has released their tax returns. You can go and see nearly, I think, 39, 40 years of our tax returns, but everyone has done it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Thinking, Years

  "2016 Presidential Debates", TV Mini-Series (2016– ). "Episode #1.1", www.imdb.com. 2016.

• Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession, the worst since the 1930s. That was in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off of Wall Street, and created a perfect storm.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, Eye, Eight

  Source: time.com

• If companies try to leave our country to avoid paying their fair share, if they try to outsource jobs, they're going to have to give back every tax break they ever received in our country.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Jobs, Giving

  Source: time.com

• Donald Trump is the first candidate ever to run for president in the last 40-plus years who has not released his tax returns, so everything he says about charity or anything else, we can't prove it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Years, President

• Donald Trump is a - the owner of a lot of real estate that he manages, he may well pay no income taxes. We know for a fact that he didn't pay any income taxes in 1978, 1979, 1984, 1992 and 1994. We know because of the reports of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission. We don't know about any year after that.

  Hillary Clinton

  Real, Taxes, Income Tax

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Lots of people commit crimes and don't get arrested. That's not the measure. But if you're going to be the president of the United States, we're reasonably going to put you under a microscope. And Donald Trump's tax behavior is absolutely important to understanding, is he qualified, is he morally fit, is he capable, is he trustworthy to have everything from the powers of federal law enforcement to the nuclear codes?

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Understanding, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think companies trying to exercise a so-called inversion should be hit with an exit tax. So I want to change behaviors, and I am deeply distressed about quarterly capitalism, because I think it is causing businesses to make decisions that are not helping the long-term profitability of American corporations or the success of our economy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Exercise, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• You've got to ask yourself, why won't Donald Trump release his tax returns? I think there may be a couple of reasons. First, maybe he's not as rich as he says he is. Second, maybe he's not as charitable as he claims to be. Third, we don't know all of his business dealings, but we have been told through investigative reporting that he owes about $650 million to Wall Street and foreign banks. Or maybe he doesn't want the American people to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes.

  Hillary Clinton

  Couple, Wall, Thinking

  Source: time.com

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