The break for me was the Medicare drug benefit in 2003. It's just grossly expensive, bad policy. After that, I no longer gave them the benefit of the doubt and started seeing the glass as half-empty. — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
It's obvious that a lot of Tea Party members tend to be elderly. You've seen that famous sign, 'Tell the government to keep its hands off my Medicare.' And I think as long as the government does keep its hands… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
Up until 1986, the top marginal rate, the top statutory rate was 50 percent. Now it's 35 percent. And all the pressure is on… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
“I think Republicans should fight for the black vote and blacks should fight for a place in the Republican Party, just as they fought… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
“it is generally considered to be the best tax ever invented. It raises more revenue at less economic cost than any other tax. For… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
“it took two full years for final congressional action on the Tax Reform Act of 1986 after the Treasury had already done a thorough… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
“Tax reform may present another opportunity to address these issues and perhaps improve both the tax system and the health care system at the… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and there is… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them. — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
“It’s as if the concept of taxation as theft—rather than as a shared burden that all should contribute toward as the cost of maintaining… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
With all due respect to Speaker Hastert, trying to eliminate the IRS by adopting a national retail sales tax is a very dumb idea. — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that, — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
