Tax cuts Quotes · Page 8

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

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent…

— Barack Obama

I wish they weren't called the 'Bush tax cuts.' If they're called some other body's tax cuts, they're probably less likely to…

— George W. Bush

This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.

— Mary Matalin

I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.

— Bobby Scott

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax…

— John Spratt

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

— Milton Friedman

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

I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I…

— Chris Matthews

The most laughable White House criticism is that tax cuts are a 'free lunch.' The American people's work created that money. Only…

— Steve Forbes

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…

— Phil Gramm

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

— Barack Obama

In a sense, George W. Bush has used the tragedy of the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the nightmarish expansion of…

— Sidney Blumenthal

The House okayed the gasoline tax cut, which will increase the deficit, line the pockets of the oil companies, and hurt the…

— Bill Maher

I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I…

— Rand Paul

If we can’t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that’s been built up around…

— Barack Obama

It's tax day and while many Americans are filing their taxes with a groan, taxpayers in the Badger State have reason to…

— Marco Rubio

[Donald Trump] campaigned on an enormous tax cut, and he campaigned on a deregulatory agenda.

— Rich Lowry

The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to…

— Jim Jeffords

It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.

— Ken Jennings

The middle classes shouldn’t be getting tax cuts, while those in tough, poorly paid jobs, who are already running out of money…

— Tim Montgomerie

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

— Jeb Bush

From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the…

— William J. Clinton

Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in…

— Barack Obama

Republicans drove us into debt with two wars and the Bush tax cuts. Now they want to pay for that debt with…

— Bernie Sanders