Tax Breaks Quotes

• There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, America, Long

  "Be Careful What You Cut" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2012.

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• The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, Political, Criminals

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• There's no such thing as a good tax.

  Winston Churchill

  Taxes Funny, Income Tax, Tax Day

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• There is no such thing as a good tax.

  Winston Churchill

  Business, Taxes Funny, Income Tax

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• Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic.

  Angela Merkel

  Money, Mean, Cutting

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit and Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

  Bennie Thompson

  Education, Drug, Quality

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• The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.

  John McCain

  Confidence, Cutting, People

  "Sen. John McCain Talks Economy, Elections, Immigration". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 5, 2010.

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• But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.

  Jim McDermott

  Hurt, Thinking, Government

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• I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.

  Christina Ricci

  Want, Married, Break

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• The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

  Marty Meehan

  Average, Break, Taxes

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• I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Oil, Too Much, Proposal

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• Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Barack Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Want, Rich, Break

  "The Stink of Desperation: Why Republicans Lie" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. September 13, 2010.

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• Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.

  Mark Dayton

  Support, Income, Minimum Wage

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• We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended in this campaign that Congress change our tax code so that we stop giving tax breaks to companies that are moving to Mexico and China and other places, and start putting those tax breaks into companies that are investing here in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Moving, Giving

  Barack Obama and Alan Keyes Illinois Senate Debate hosted by Illinois Radio Network in the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, www.keyesarchives.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Investor demand for distressed property has been healthy, as rents rise to levels that can cover investors' costs while they wait for properties to appreciate. Giving investors a small tax break should further juice up demand, supporting prices for distressed homes and the market in general.

  Mark Zandi

  Home, Appreciate, Giving

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• I have a lot of respect for President Obama. I consider him a friend. I disagree with him on issues like the extension of tax breaks that Bush initiated. But I think history will judge a President Obama a lot better than many other contemporaries, given the fact that he came into office at a time when this country was in terrible, terrible shape.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• While the happy couple are enjoying the thrill of the rose garden, the in-laws are saying that they are just not right for each other. We keep telling them that they cannot pay couples to stay together, and it is clear that it will take more than a three-quid-a-week tax break to keep this marriage together.

  Harriet Harman

  Couple, Garden, Law

  House of Commons Debates, publications.parliament.uk. May 25, 2010.

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• While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

  Warren Buffett

  Struggle, Fighting, Class

  "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich" by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. August 14. 2011.

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• I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies - the subsidies - they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill.

  Dan Benishek

  Oil, Years, Subsidies

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• The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Dirty, Men, Naughty

  "What class warfare really looks like" by Dee Dee Myers, www.politico.com.

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• The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.

  Herman Cain

  Special, Favors, Loser

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• Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

  Jennifer Granholm

  Home, School, Cities

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• Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

  Andrew Mellon

  Jobs, Giving, Corporations

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• The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.

  Michael Moore

  Trying, Cliffs, Rich

  "An Open Letter to President Obama" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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• You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Cutting, Entitlement, Economic

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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