Tax Cuts Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• Looking at the high cost of occupation in Iraq and the needs we have in this country, would it not have been better to have smaller tax cuts in order to keep down the deficits.

  Timothy J. Russert

  Country, Cutting, Iraq

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• The middle classes shouldn’t be getting tax cuts, while those in tough, poorly paid jobs, who are already running out of money at the start of the month, are getting their benefits cut. That’s not one-nation conservatism; it’s two nations conservatism.

  Tim Montgomerie

  Running, Jobs, Cutting

  "Can David Cameron make Tories the new party of social justice?" by Daniel Boffey, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2015.

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• I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

  Jacob Lew

  Cutting, Thinking, Payroll Tax

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• The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

  Richard Neal

  Cutting, America, People

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• Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

  Patrick McHenry

  Cutting, Generations, Taxes

  "Patrick McHenry:'All We Can Talk About Is Tax Cuts'" by Megan Slack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 07, 2009.

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• Let us invest less and less in war and tax cuts for the richest 1 percent, and more and more in jobs and schools for the other 99 percent.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Jobs, War, School

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• The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude to a long-term or permanent extension, and that would hurt economic recovery as well by undermining confidence that we're prepared to make a commitment today to bring down our future deficits.

  Timothy Geithner

  Hurt, Recovery, Commitment

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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• There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.

  Jeff Flake

  Cutting, Republican, Taxes

  "Flake: Past Spending Limits Haven't Worked". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. July 29, 2011.

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• I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts.

  Mary Fallin

  Believe, Cutting, Income

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• We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.

  Tom Daschle

  Cutting, President, Politics

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• I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Dirty, Struggle, School

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• I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this tragedy and those deaths for his own political desires.

  Grover Norquist

  Cutting, Thinking, Political

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• It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria as a cover story for their real agenda, which is top-down class warfare. To put it in Romneyesque terms, it's all about finding an excuse to slash programs that help people who like to watch Nascar events, even while lavishing tax cuts on people who like to own Nascar teams.

  Paul Krugman

  Real, Team, Cutting

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• Spending and tax cut decisions must be both fiscally responsible and fair to our working families. I believe that fiscal responsibility is the way to create prosperity for America and secure the retirement of America's seniors.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Senior, Retirement, Believe

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• I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we're going to make to have a short-term economic strategy and a long-term fairness strategy, which is part of getting this country going again.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Cutting, Class

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• The reality is (Clinton's) so-called tax cut is basically giving money to people who largely don't pay taxes, so that it's really spending rather than a tax cut, ... This Week.

  Phil Gramm

  Cutting, Reality, Giving Money

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• You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues. You know what it takes to establish causality. You know that the first order effect of cutting taxes is to lower tax revenues. We all agree that the ultimate reduction in tax revenues can be less than this first order effect, because lower tax rates encourage greater economic activity and thus expand the tax base. No thoughtful person believes that this possible offset more than compensated for the first effect for these tax cuts. Not a single one.

  Andrew Samwick

  Smart, Believe, Cutting

  "A New Year's Plea". voxbaby.blogspot.ru. January 03, 2007.

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• A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget....As the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately end up with more revenues. Prosperity is the real way to balance our budget. By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance.

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Real, Mean

  "Radio and Television Address to the Nation on the Test Ban Treaty and the Tax Reduction Bill". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 18, 1963.

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• A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

  John F. Kennedy

  Home, Mean, Cutting

  "Radio and Television Address to the Nation on the Test Ban Treaty and the Tax Reduction Bill". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 18, 1963.

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• The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut.

  Dave Obey

  Cutting, Bills, Size

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• A big chunk of [Donald] Trump's tax cut would go to businesses.

  Kelly McEvers

  Cutting, Bigs, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

  Lane Evans

  Cutting, Issues, Names

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• In the Iowa senate, I helped pass the largest tax cut in state history - returning over four billion dollars in savings and putting more money back in the pockets of hard-working Iowa families.

  Joni Ernst

  Hard Work, Cutting, Iowa

  Source: hotair.com

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• The Republican tax cut threatens to undercut both veterans health care and the veterans educational benefits that have been recognized for decades as not only the long-standing obligation of the Nation to its veterans, but also as the best recruiting incentives we can offer to keep our armed forces strong and sharp.

  Lane Evans

  Strong, Educational, Cutting

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