Tax cuts Quotes · Page 3

Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call us in the morning!

— Barack Obama

So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

— Peter Welch

Establishment idiots say the Trump tax cuts only helped the rich. Don't they understand anything about economics?

— Steve Hilton

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

— Patrick McHenry

There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that.

— Joe Lhota

Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment's not that big an issue.

— Alexi Giannoulias

The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.

— Steve Forbes

I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.

— Austan Goolsbee

What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be…

— Adam Davidson

When you add up all the loopholes and deductions that upper-income individuals can...are currently taking advantage of, you take those all away,…

— Barack Obama

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts…

— George Voinovich

On the issues that I care deeply about - the environment, Roe vs. Wade, the war in Iraq, with no weapons of…

— Lincoln Chafee

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happened with reconciliation; twelve Democratic Senators voted…

— Tom Coburn

In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the…

— Paul Krugman

Joe Biden says the Wall Street crisis is the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts, which makes as much sense as…

— Jonah Goldberg

They're pushing the continuation of a tax cut that will give an additional $500 billion in tax cuts to 120,000 families. And…

— Joe Biden

You are smart people. You know that the tax cuts have not fueled record revenues … You know that the first order…

— Andrew Samwick

“In fact, Bush’s tax cuts increased the amount of revenue collected by more than 30 percent from his first year as president…

— Jack Cashill

There is a direct link between the federal tax cut of 2001 and state tax increases in 2003. When the federal government's…

— Senator John Kerry

The middle class will pay less and people making $1 million or more will begin to contribute slightly more. Let me give…

— Joe Biden

A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, their excise…

— Senator John Kerry

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. Since most of our exogenous tax…

— Christina Romer

Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben…

— Joe Conason

Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.

— Mark McKinnon

If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.

— Milton Friedman

Tax cuts are one of many ways to stimulate the economy. Building infrastructure, for example, is another.

— Richard Thaler

[T]hese tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans are also the tax cuts that are least likely to promote growth.

— Barack Obama

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

— Steve Chabot

Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to…

— Barack Obama

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

— Donald Trump

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

— Tom Daschle

Tax cuts for the rich defund the critical public programs on which American families depend.

— Tom Steyer

If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm…

— Alexi Giannoulias

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

— Peg Bracken

The older Democratic party focused on equality of opportunity, economic growth and targeted tax cuts.

— Vernon Jones

There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.

— Phil Gramm

The right wing has an ecosystem that is funded by billionaires who want tax cuts.

— Cenk Uygur

I don't hear anything from Trump about tax increases. I hear tax cuts from him. I hear tax reform from him.

— Rush Limbaugh

Tax cuts create more jobs and this is something we as Republicans have to do a better job of marketing.

— Pete Sessions