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I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I. -- Randy Newman
Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase. -- Grover Norquist
We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels. -- Dick Armey
In 2001, Republicans used reconciliation to pass President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut that mainly benefited the wealthy. -- Bernie Sanders
A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con. -- Tony Abbott
Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs. -- Rand Paul
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. -- Dick Morris
I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut. -- Jacob Lew
Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes. -- Dick Durbin
Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring. -- Paul Ryan
There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans. -- Jeff Flake
The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut. -- Dave Obey
Let's restore sanity and fairness to the tax cut conversation. We simply cannot afford to hand over the bank vault to our nation's millionaires and billionaires while the middle class picks up spare change. -- Paul Tonko
As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes. -- Rand Paul
When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.' -- John Breaux
My healthcare plan puts more money into average families' pockets than the Bush tax cuts... He's got a lousy tax cut. It's only good for the super wealthy. I've got a tax cut that will help ordinary people. -- Dick Gephardt
Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut. -- Adam Davidson
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
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. -- Rand Paul
I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. -- Rand Paul
What we're discussing privately and publicly, is a budget which is a blueprint for the future which creates jobs, which educates our children, which provides healthcare for all Americans, which takes our deficit down, which gives a tax cut for 95% of the American people. -- Nancy Pelosi
Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats. -- Dick Gephardt
There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem. -- Eric Alterman
We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid. -- John Spratt
All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none. -- Anthony Weiner
Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That's not a tax raise. That's called fairness where I come from. -- Joe Biden
A big chunk of [Donald] Trump's tax cut would go to businesses. -- Kelly McEvers
If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough. -- Milton Friedman
We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating. -- Tom Daschle
[Donald Trump] campaigned on an enormous tax cut, and he campaigned on a deregulatory agenda. -- Rich Lowry
The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians. -- Steve Forbes
A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money. -- Ben Bernanke
A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness. -- George W. Bush
The anti-tax-cut, soft-on-defense, big-spending Democrats will take the Democratic Party to the edge and maybe over. -- Joe Lieberman
This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy. -- Mary Matalin
By the way, my tax cut is the biggest since Ronald Reagan. I'm very proud of it. -- Donald Trump
Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
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During his campaign, [Donald] Trump promised the biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution in the 1980s. -- Kelly McEvers
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people. -- Carol Moseley Braun
Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view. -- Alan Greenspan
So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? -- Peg Bracken
One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use. -- Edward Lazear
[ Tax cut ] will create tremendous numbers of new jobs. But regulations, [Hillary Clinton] are going to regulate these businesses out of existence. -- Donald Trump
If you stimulate the economy by means of a tax cut, the people that you tend to be benefiting are the better off. -- Judy Woodruff
Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative. -- Barack Obama
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
I support responsible spending, and balancing the budget, but this tax cut and the budget cuts of last month accomplish neither of these goals. -- Marty Meehan
Everyone wants a more simple tax system. But if this means that certain tax breaks have to be cut, people are no longer so enthusiastic. -- Angela Merkel
Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country. -- Ari Fleischer
Payments to the disabled are getting slashed and people like me are getting a tax cut. Who could possibly think that is a good thing? -- Mark Haddon
I'm Bill Clinton and I think you deserve a change. That's why I've offered a plan to get the economy moving again, starting with a middle-class tax cut... -- William J. Clinton
When I go around, despite the tax cut, the thing - the things that business as in people like the most is the fact that I'm cutting regulation. -- Donald Trump
By the way, when I say cut taxes, I don't mean fiddle with the code. I mean abolish the income tax and the IRS, and replace them with nothing. -- Ron Paul
Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages. -- Franklin Raines
Donald Trump has said that his 15 percent rate would apply to all businesses. And if that's the case, billionaire real estate magnets will get a very big tax cut. -- Donald Trump
I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes. -- Bernie Sanders
The reality is (Clinton's) so-called tax cut is basically giving money to people who largely don't pay taxes, so that it's really spending rather than a tax cut, ... This Week. -- Phil Gramm
The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs: in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place -- Bob Dole
New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut. -- Craig Kilborn
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
Every tax cut I call for is targeted, it's responsible and it is paid for within my balanced budget plan. My tax cuts will not undermine our economy. They will speed economic growth. -- William J. Clinton
Make no mistake, if the payroll-tax cut is extended, it will become permanent. Social Security will become another welfare program as the tie between what someone pays and what they receive gets broken. -- Ari Fleischer
In the Iowa senate, I helped pass the largest tax cut in state history - returning over four billion dollars in savings and putting more money back in the pockets of hard-working Iowa families. -- Joni Ernst
It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time no one is so fortunate as to be ineligible for a tax cut -- Jonathan Schell
From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that. -- William J. Clinton

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