Tax Cuts Quotes - Page 4

• Health care is still the number-one issue out there. Someone who seizes it, I think, will do very well in an election. Let's face it: Clinton's two big issues were the middle class tax cut, which he dropped, wisely, at the time to help reduce the deficit, and health care. That's what he ran on.

  Russ Feingold

  Cutting, Thinking, Class

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. April 30, 2002.

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• It was absolutely critical to renew the Bush tax cuts. Letting them expire would result in a massive tax increase that would retard economic growth.

  Mitt Romney

  Cutting, Growth, Economic

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• You [Hillary Clinton] are going to approve one of the biggest tax cuts in history.

  Donald Trump

  Cutting, Clinton, Taxes

  Source: time.com

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• They have two aspects. One is that they're unpredictable, and that often rich and more affluent households are slow to spend the funds. The other thing about tax cuts is that they're redistributive. So they tend, naturally, to benefit those who pay tax.

  Judy Woodruff

  Cutting, Two, Benefits

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural community or the black urban community, you see that the resources have been sucked up into the war and tax cuts for the rich.

  Charles Rangel

  War, Cutting, Thinking

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• We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans, and college for every young person who wants to go. In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future. In policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class. These are the policies I have fought for my entire career.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, College, Class

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• Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.

  Robert Reich

  School, Cutting, Class

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• Jesus never called the poor 'lazy,' fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes or asked a leper for a copay.

  John Fugelsang

  Jesus, Cutting, Lazy

  "After Jon Stewart, Can We Find the Funny?" by Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2015.

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• Jesus refers to the poor over and over again. There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that call upon us to respond to the needs of the poor. And yet, I find that when Christians talked about values in this last election that was not on the agenda, that was not a concern. If you were to get the voter guide of the Christian Coalition, that does not rate. They talk more about tax cuts for people who are wealthy than they do about helping poor people who are in desperate straits.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Jesus, Cutting

  "Meet Evangelist Tony Campolo" by John Oliver Mason, progressive.org. August 5, 2005.

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• Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

  Dick Morris

  Cutting, Favors, Increase

  "Bush's latest investor-friendly tax cut". www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2003.

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• I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. But I've also gone to Chicago. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson, I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder...

  Rand Paul

  Party, Cutting, Years

  Rand Paul during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.

  Mark Zandi

  Mistake, Recovery, Cutting

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• What Mae West said about sex is true about taxes. All tax cuts are good tax cuts; even bad tax cuts are good tax cuts.

  Grover Norquist

  Sex, Cutting, West

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• I think that [Barack Obama] does say something that's - that is telling on that score, when he talks about the [George W.] Bush tax cuts and the swap he makes after the midterm elections, which is he doesn't agree with the Bush tax cuts.

  Ron Suskind

  Cutting, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.

  Joe Conason

  Cutting, Years, America

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• Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.

  Joe Conason

  Patriotic, Cutting, Two

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• You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

  Steve Chabot

  Cutting, Important, Beast

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• Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.

  Dick Durbin

  Cutting, Important, Pressure

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• I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

  Vito Fossella

  Cutting, Thinking, Made

  Human Events Interview, humanevents.com. April 4, 2008.

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• If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Mean, Cutting, Class

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2010.

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• The fact is that a lot of the spending increases came during the Bush administration. Two unpaid for wars we got ourselves engaged in. A prescription drug plan that added enormous amounts to our spending, and the tax cuts at the high end that did not create jobs and create revenue coming.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, War, Cutting

  "Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. John McCain on avoiding automatic spending cuts". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. February 10, 2013.

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• If you look at what's happened to the stock market, if you look at what's happened to housing values, if you look at what's happened to bank loan portfolios because the value of their other assets that they've already issued loans against were going down, there was a pretty good argument for trying to pass something at about this level of investment with the divisions as they were - unemployment, food stamps, and tax cuts, aid to education and healthcare, and job creation.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Cutting, Trying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.

  Paul Krugman

  Jobs, Cutting, Creating

  "NBC's Russert Refs Debate Between Bill and Krugman". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 10, 2004.

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• Any Democrat who squirms on the tax-cut issue in the primaries has no chance ' zero ' to win the nomination. Each will have to take the “pledge” to oppose the Bush tax cuts. Thus, Bush will have succeeded in creating a situation where anyone who can win the nomination can't win the election. Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

  Dick Morris

  Zero, Cutting, Winning

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• Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.

  John W. Gardner

  Mean, School, Cutting

  John W. Gardner (1971). “The Recovery of Confidence”

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