#tax cuts

Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that? ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

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Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

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But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code. ↗

— Richard Neal

#america #code #could #cuts #democrats

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas. ↗

— George Osborne

#cuts #just #life #should #tax

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

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

I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#cuts #first #i #i think #second

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes. ↗

— Joe Conason

#agenda #billion #bush #bush tax cuts #coming

The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't think that uncertainty over what the tax rate will be for someone that makes a million dollars a year has that big an impact on the economic growth rate in the country. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#country #cuts #data #does #dollars

Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year. ↗

— Joe Conason

#amp #anyone #appealed #ben #bush