A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.
Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.
Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.
Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country.
Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy....
My healthcare plan puts more money into average families' pockets than the Bush tax cuts... He's got a lousy tax cut. It's only good for the super wealthy. I've got a tax cut that will help ordinary people.
Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.
Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
Tax cuts are an investment in working families.
We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.
I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.
We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.
I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that.
There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.
Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut they didn't really like and didn't see a tax increase they didn't hate and do everything they could to block.
Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.
I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.
We certainly could have voted on making the middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts for working families permanent had the Republicans not insisted that the only way they would support those tax breaks is if we also added $700 billion to the deficit to gi...
You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money.
