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  • The biggest - one of the biggest barriers to driving economic growth is the capital gains tax rate. I propose taking it to zero. -- Herman Cain
  • You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains. -- Carlos Slim
  • I think that Governor Romney operates on the capital gains tax, his investments, what he lives off of instead of doing it off of his income. -- Allen West
  • If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit. -- Bill Gates
  • I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax. -- Michele Bachmann
  • I will promote savings and investment by maintaining the 15% rate on capital gains and dividends. I will eliminate the tax entirely for those with annual income below $200,000. -- Mitt Romney
  • Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions while renters get no deduction at all. -- Robert Reich
  • No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax. -- Joe Biden
  • Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support for capital gains taxes and disregard for contracts. -- Amity Shlaes
  • Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged. It's one of those taxes that most clearly damages economic growth and jobs. -- Grover Norquist
  • Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion. -- Roger Wicker
  • To focus capital and entrepreneurship into empowering innovation, we should change is the capital gains tax rate. We would be better served by a regressive tax rate, that would become progressively smaller the longer the investment is held. -- Clayton Christensen
  • The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. -- John F. Kennedy
  • When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains. -- Rob Portman
  • I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. -- Barack Obama
  • If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes. -- Michael Bloomberg
  • There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder. -- Andrew Tobias
  • One of the reasons that Social Security is in so much trouble is that the only funding stream comes from people who get a wage. The people who get wages is declining dramatically. Most of the income in this country is made by people at the top who get dividends and - and capital gains. -- Mike Huckabee
  • There are many people who think we should have zero tax on capital gains, interest and dividends for everybody, as - the very, very wealthy. But recognize that means that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett would pay no income tax at all. And some people say, 'Well, that's a good thing for growth of the economy.' -- Mitt Romney
  • Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged. -- Grover Norquist
  • There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all. -- Thomas Frank
  • I believe the tax on capital gains should be zero. -- Mitt Romney
  • Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes. -- Burton Malkiel
  • The key to building wealth is to preserve capital and wait patiently for the right opportunity to make the extraordinary gains. -- Victor Sperandeo
  • I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow -- Barack Obama
  • I think if you had a capital-gains system where the long, patient capital would actually be rewarded, nanosecond capital turning would not be. -- Hillary Clinton
  • Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message to business. -- Bill Richardson
  • The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work. -- Calvin Trillin
  • Income earned by the sweat of your brow should be taxed at the lowest rates, not the highest. Capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate. -- John C. Bogle
  • Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes. -- John Podhoretz
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