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

• 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

• Independent experts have looked at what I've proposed and looked at what Donald's [Trump] proposed, and basically they've said this, that if his tax plan, which would blow up the debt by over $5 trillion and would in some instances disadvantage middle-class families compared to the wealthy, were to go into effect, we would lose 3.5 million jobs and maybe have another recession.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Independent, Blow

  Source: time.com

• We should demand that Donald release all of his tax returns so that people can see what are the entanglements and the financial relationships that he has with the Russians and other foreign powers.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Demand, Return

• We have undocumented immigrants in America who are paying more federal income tax than a billionaire. I find that just astonishing.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, Income, Undocumented Immigrants

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

• People like Donald Trump can take all the money that's made from a TV show, from selling neckties made in China, running golf courses, and wipe out that income for tax purposes with depreciation. Only a narrow segment of people qualify for this.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Golf, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• You know, compromise can't be a dirty word in American politics. There's plenty to argue about. Trump administration is still talking about ridiculous tax cuts for the wealthiest of the wealthy. That should be resisted with every fiber of our being.

  Hillary Clinton

  Dirty, Cutting, Ridiculous

  Source: www.pbs.org

• It does not help the vast majority of Americans, but it does really well for people already at the top. Well, we're going to turn that upside down. We're going to make the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes for a change.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Majority, Doe

  "Report: Ex-Fox Chief Roger Ailes Spent Millions on Enemies; Clinton Responds to Trump's Economic Plan; Clinton Says Trump Will Give "Super-Big Tax Breaks" to Rich; Jeb Bush's Son Breaks with Father And Endorses Trump; Charity Offers Free Soccer Clinics to Thousands". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. August 8, 2016.

• The only years [of Donald Trump's] 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, Years, Trying

  Source: time.com

• The tax code rewards corporations for outsourcing jobs, and their profits overseas, instead of investing here in the United States.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Investing, Corporations

  Source: time.com

• The money is with people who have taken advantage of every single break in the tax code.

  Hillary Clinton

  Taken, People, Break

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

• I am on record as saying that we need to put more money into the Social Security Trust Fund. That's part of my commitment to raise taxes on the wealthy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Commitment, Needs, Records

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

• If you're a full-time manager of your own property - and full-time, according to Congress, is 15 hours a week - you can take unlimited depreciation and use it to offset your income from other areas and pay little in tax. One of the biggest real estate tax lawyers in New York said to me, if you're a major real estate family and you're paying income taxes, you should sue your tax lawyer for malpractice.

  Hillary Clinton

  Real, Lawyer, Week

  Source: www.pbs.org

• One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites.

  Hillary Clinton

  World, Collecting, Taxes

• Every presidential candidate for decades has released his tax returns, and I've released 33 years of my tax returns. The American people deserve to know about our taxes. And so Donald Trump is standing in the way of precedent that goes back on both sides of aisle Democrats and Republicans, and he clearly has something that he doesn't want us to see.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, People, Presidential

  Source: www.9news.com

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