Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.
Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.
That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.
We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses.
Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.
There will be a big tax cut for the middle class. But any tax cuts we have for the upper class will be offset by less deductions that will pay for it.
Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to.
After 25 quarters of so-called recovery under Obama, it has increased a total of only 14.3 percent. Compare this to earlier periods. After the JFK tax cuts of the early 1960s, the economy grew in total by roughly 40 percent. After the Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s, the economy grew by a total of 34 percent.
Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.
People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars.
Folks across the spectrum wants more efficient management of their tax dollars.
I have never voted for a tax increase.
I will veto any tax increase.
I've made a commitment that any tax increase, I'm going to veto. It's the worst thing we could do. We have an amount of money to spend. That's it.
A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.
I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.
