Trickle-down economics does not work, and tax reform should not be defined as partisan tax cuts for the wealthy and huge corporations. — Jacky Rosen Copy Share Image
If you're really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax… — Paul Tonko Copy Share Image
It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I believe that we do best when the middle class is doing well. And by giving them those tax cuts, they had… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am the candidate of tax cuts, repealing Obamacare, repealing Dodd-Frank, letting the markets work, coming up with patient-and-doctor-centered healthcare solutions instead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look at what's happened to the stock market, if you look at what's happened to housing values, if you look… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I could never allow [tax] cuts that devastate education for our children, that pollute our environment, that end the guarantee of health… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems.… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What does it mean when Republicans and Democrats alike warn us about the 'pain' involved in cutting government spending - in their… — Theodore J. Forstmann Copy Share Image
His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an… — Bruce Morton Copy Share Image
On Capitol Hill, the Republican-controlled House voted mostly along party lines tonight to pass President Bush's federal budget blueprint. This includes his… — Dan Rather 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… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
The fact is that a lot of the spending increases came during the Bush administration. Two unpaid for wars we got ourselves… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
The world is likely to view any temporary extension of the income tax cuts for the top two percent as a prelude… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The most pernicious of his [Obama] proposals will be the massive Make Work Pay refundable tax credit. Dressed up as a tax… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, the Reagan tax cuts turned the deepest recession since the Great Depression into the largest 20-year economic boom in… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Any Democrat who squirms on the tax-cut issue in the primaries has no chance ' zero ' to win the nomination. Each… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
The Republican tax cut threatens to undercut both veterans health care and the veterans educational benefits that have been recognized for decades… — Lane Evans Copy Share Image