Believe Quote by J. C. Watts

If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black…

— Barack Obama

You don't make a case for reparations thinking, 'Oh yeah, people are gonna love this.' I didn't see that coming.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is…

— Kent Conrad

I believe there are several conservative democrats who are prepared to join Republicans in opposition to measures that propose new entitlements and reparations.

— Thom Tillis

Tax reform has been a congressional priority for decades. It should be a bipartisan issue. I don't know why anyone in Congress would want…

— Matt Gaetz

In 2001, Republicans used reconciliation to pass President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut that mainly benefited the wealthy.

— Bernie Sanders

Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it.…

— Joseph Sobran

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

— Tom Coburn

We elect Democrats to the Congress to give us stuff and we elect Republicans to the White House so we don't have to pay…

— Charlie McDowell

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning

— Samuel Johnson

Republicans spend and borrow, Democrats tax and spend.

— Stan Jones

Congress must simply do more to eliminate waste and be good stewards of taxpayer dollars.

— Cindy Hyde-Smith