Quotes About Policy

As a captain of industry, I would prefer more tax breaks to help people buy houses, but as a citizen, I realize someone has to pay.

Tax breaks and other financial breaks that favor the wealthiest among us do not create greater prosperity for all; they simply siphon off more and more money to those who already have it, and more and more money away from those who do not.

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

Tax cuts are an investment in working families.

If you want to leave move money in the hands of poor people, you cannot do it through personal income tax cuts. You have to just give them money.

President Obama has repeatedly urged Congress to let the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year. Increasing rates on top earners is an obvious way to raise revenue from those who can afford it most.

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.

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.

The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.

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.

I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.

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

It's common sense to be for middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts on small businesses, to be for not allowing Medicare to be turned into voucher care.

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

We need to restore the Bush tax cuts or actually make them permanent.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

Making the tax cuts permanent will continue to grow the economy, create jobs, and put more money in the pockets of the hard-working families of Pennsylvania.

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.

Tax cuts create more jobs and this is something we as Republicans have to do a better job of marketing.

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

The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.