Cutting Quote by Walter Cronkite

If we want cut the deficit, let's talk about raising taxes on corporations and the wealthiest individuals - not putting air traffic controllers out…

— Jasmine Crockett

The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.

— Danny K. Davis

We can reduce our deficit, and do it in a much more balanced way than sequestration, simply by fixing our tax code to get…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll…

— William J. Clinton

Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

— Milton Friedman

I think first of all, let me...let me repeat...let me repeat what I said. I'm not in favor of a $5 trillion tax cut.…

— Mitt Romney

We want to make sure that tax reform doesn't increase the size of the deficit.

— Steve Mnuchin

I hope we can agree that it's better to cut taxes substantially, robustly, for the middle class as opposed to the top 1 percent.…

— Bob Casey, Jr

We need to have the growth. If we simply look at this as being deficit-neutral, you're never going to get the type of tax…

— Mick Mulvaney

In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.

— Jim Lehrer

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits…

— Ron Paul

We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough…

— Ronald Reagan