#tax cuts

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

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 budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment of other priorities and does little to put our nation's fiscal house in order. ↗

— Jim Jeffords

#budget #cuts #detriment #does #domestic

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

#also #billion #breaks #certainly #could

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

— Bobby Scott

#cuts #first #i #i think #second

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it. ↗

— Tom Allen

#beyond #budget #care #children #cuts

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

If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#class #cuts #i #means #middle

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts. ↗

— Patrick McHenry

#been #cuts #generations #lowest #marginal

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