Budget Quote by Stephen Moore

The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the…

— Terry Savage

The left does understand how raising taxes reduces economic activity. How about their desire for increasing cigarette taxes, soda taxes? What are they trying…

— Rush Limbaugh

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

— John Podhoretz

Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction. While political…

— Dee Dee Myers

I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term…

— Tom Cole

Tax rates for the wealthy should revert to Clinton-era levels, both because it is necessary for long-term deficit reduction and because fairness dictates it.…

— Eliot Spitzer

If we want to jack up the tax rates on the really rich, the amounts of money that would bring in are trivial compared…

— Charles Murray

We're looking to make sure things are fair, and we're always looking at ways to lower taxes for the middle class and raise them…

— Justin Trudeau

So much for not raising taxes on the middle class... Reality is setting in for many who voted for another 4 yrs.

— Anonymous

You [Republicans] are not going to cut taxes. You're going to raise taxes on the middle class.

— Tim Kaine

I'm a Conservative who believes in lower taxes. They lead to a more enterprising economy. But I'm not somebody who believes you can fund…

— George Osborne

It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the…

— John F. Kennedy