#tax cut

I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#completely #cut #deficit #deficit reduction #face

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I. ↗

— Randy Newman

#cut #i #i think #ridiculous #tax

Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#clear #cut #democratic #economic #economic growth

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect. ↗

— Mike Pence

#amount #cuts #doubled #during #effect

The President is destroying the fabric of America with a combined policy of war, tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#combined #cuts #destroying #domestic #fabric

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#bush #bush tax cuts #cut #cuts #debt

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

#class #cuts #democrats #keeping #levels

We've outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there's major competition from India and China. It's not enough to make income tax cuts permanent. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#competition #creating #cuts #enough #europe

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 give tax breaks to the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans. That's what was really disturbing. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#cut #giving #instead #people #pockets