Quotes About Reform

Effective tax credits are used to create jobs and grow our economy. But tax credits that aren't delivering for Missourians must be retooled and reformed.

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

Don't allow politically connected folks to get their particular tax breaks.

Our government and its social policies, its tax breaks, the way school days work, so much of the country we live in is built for married couples with a male breadwinner and a female domestic laborer. Government needs to be massively altered in order to serve this population.

Many tax experts say a key element to any fundamental overhaul is getting rid of certain deductions for businesses - the 'special-interest giveaways that are masked as tax breaks,' as House Republicans describe many of them in their own proposal.

If giving tax breaks to millionaires created jobs or grew our economy, I would be in favor of them, but they are the same failed policies of the past that just don't work.

The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.

Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.

Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer.

There were 23 or 24 separate tax cuts during the Giuliani administration. I'd love to be able to equal that.

There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.

The president is 100 percent for extending the tax cuts for 98.7 percent of small businesses.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.

The Trump tax cuts mean business.

Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that.

In 2010 the U.S. will have a payroll tax rate increase, an estate tax increase, and income tax increases. There's also a tax increase coming in 2010 on carried interest. This rate will rise from its current level of 15 percent to 35 percent, and then it will rise again in 2011.

What you do by having an income tax rate reduction across the board, you really provide great incentives for people to work, produce, and increase output. So I would support a carbon tax in replacement for a progressive income tax.

If we could get the corporate tax rate down to, let's say, a maximum of 25 percent, it would be a sea change for this country. It would be great.

We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses.

Get rid of the preferences and the special deductions and the loopholes... and invest in getting the tax rate to a competitive level so we stop seeing companies move off shore.

Corporate tax rate cut is a big decision and giving tax exemption of up to Rs 1.45 lakh crore in a year is not a small thing, it is a big deal.

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.