Quotes About Cuts

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.

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.

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.

When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!

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

Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the average American family of four will receive a $1,182 tax cut. Imagine what you could do with $1,182 more in your pocket!

If we're going to have tax cuts, let's focus on those in lower and middle income groups. Make sure that they get the breaks they need to continue to try to provide for their families.

Tax cuts for the rich defund the critical public programs on which American families depend.

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?'

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

I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

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

I'm a Red American; I believe in tax cuts. But I'm a Red American with a lot of Blue stripes.

The Trump tax cuts mean business.

If you just want money and tax cuts and stuff, fine - just stop acting like you're moral.

Notably, the Trump tax cuts also doubled the child tax credit, reducing the tax burden on working families so that they have more resources to devote to their children.

Now, I do think when we move into 2012 and '13 when, presumably, the economy is on firmer ground, I would allow the tax rates for upper-income individuals to revert back to where they were before the cuts in the 1990s. I think at that point it makes perfect sense.

Cuts in tax rates on individual and company income nearly always produce more revenue, not less.

We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place.

Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

Government is not being honest with taxpayers when it renews existing tax breaks and calls them new tax cuts.