Quotes About Legislation

I'm against tax increases on anyone, period, end of debate.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

Obama broke his no-new-taxes pledge 15 days after he took office when he signed legislation on Feb. 4, 2009 raising the tax on cigarettes 158 percent - 62 cents per pack.

The bottom line is we need a tax code that is more simpler, that is more fairer, that gets rid of the special carve-outs, the special lobbyist loopholes. That's the direction we need to go.

Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.

I can think of a number of things more interesting to read about than tax law, but few things affect our lives more.

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.

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

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.

The real estate lobby has prominent allies in both parties. After the last major overhaul of the tax code, in 1986 - under a Republican president, Ronald Reagan, a Republican Senate and a Democratic House - it was a Democrat, Bill Clinton, who signed legislation that restored lost real estate tax breaks seven years later.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I don't support any increase in income tax rates.

Tax reform shouldn't add one penny to our deficit or to the tax bills of middle-class Americans.

What we need is fundamental tax reform.

Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

We've got to have comprehensive tax reform.