Unemployment Republicans Quotes by Bruce Bartlett

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them.

— Bruce Bartlett

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

“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

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

Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that,

— Bruce Bartlett