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MICHAEL DARDA I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 shou...
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PAUL KASRIEL There are two components that go into a bill -- the gas cost rate and the base rate. This request is...
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DOC HASTINGS The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't t...
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE The magnitude of money is unique. And it's unique when you go into a session and both parties are ta...
KURT WENNER To focus capital and entrepreneurship into empowering innovation, we should change is the capital ga...
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it was more like two scared kids huddling in the dark when they knew the monster under the bed wasn'...
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MARK UDALL The concern with the economy is that the stimulus from the tax cuts and the rate cuts may be fading....
BILL STRAZZULLO Manufacturing has already been in an a recession ... but we were looking for a fourth-quarter turnar...
HANK COX This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forw...
LYSLE BRINKER The households that will benefit from these two tax cuts are quite well off, and furthermore they've...
JOEL FRIEDMAN This [budget cuts] is part of a reoccurring problem under the Lula government.
EDUARDO ROCHE I'm all in favor of the tax cuts, but I think that the administration has to eat their spinach along...
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No one in my district is asking for tax cuts.
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DON LUSKIN First and foremost, we believe in tax cuts,
JOHN KASICH I think the tax cuts were too big, and I am worried about the deficit. You have to pay it back at so...
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CRAIG GROESCHEL We are operating under the assumption that they will extend.
JAY DAWSON It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services.....
LAURA MILLER The debate on interest-rate cuts is still a live one.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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DAVID WADE I believe tax cuts should be responsible and targeted, ... This year, Congress is working on last ye...
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ALAN GREENSPAN We can't just talk dollars when you talk about these cuts. These are impacting real people. Bush's b...
DEBORAH WEINSTEIN Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spendi...
STEVE CHABOT There was a growing undercurrent of discontent by fiscal conservatives kept under wraps because Bush...
CHRIS EDWARDS I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.
VITO FOSSELLA I conduct all my nighttime activities under the assumption that my wife is awake, that she never fal...
SAYED KASHUA![]()
The 'single tax' is so simple, so fundamental, and so easy to carry into effect that I have no doubt...
CLARENCE DARROW It's no coincidence at all that we've had strong economic growth after the tax cuts.
DAN MITCHELL It's certainly the prerogative of Democrats to vote against tax cuts if that's how they feel,
ARI FLEISCHER It's the combination of massive tax cuts combined with massive spending on Iraq and Katrina when we ...
KENT CONRAD It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
KEN JENNINGS The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment ...
JAMES JEFFORDS It's hard to believe that Congress could see more tax cuts for the rich as a priority.
ROBERT MCINTYRE![]()
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DIANNE FEINSTEIN What Greenspan had to say is very bullish -- he's saying let's have tax cuts sooner rather than late...
BRIAN FINNERTY The president is committed to making tax cuts for the richest one percent permanent. There are trade...
EMANUEL CLEAVER It was a prioritization that said tax cuts are the central need of government. It didn't talk about ...
ROD SMITH How much more evidence does the government need that across-the-board corporate tax-cuts are a drag ...
KEN GEORGETTI We were promised that if we gave huge tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, the benefits would trick...
TOM DASCHLE [And at a Capitol Hill news conference, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that huge tax cut...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS We have said throughout the campaign that New Zealanders would pay for National's tax cuts through h...
MICHAEL CULLEN Taxes are usually permanent, but tax cuts aren't.
PEGGY VENABLE![]()
They're for tax cuts and against them. They're for NAFTA and against NAFTA. They're for the Patriot ...
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JOE NEGRON I don't approve of any new tax cuts until we can control our spending and address these deficits,
LINCOLN CHAFEE He's proposing tax cuts that are clearly not affordable. If they were affordable, he would do them a...
FRANK MAURO Instead of corporate sponsorship, what they should do is band together and demand that tax cuts get ...
GARY RUSKIN We've cut a $3 trillion hole in the budget for the next three years for tax cuts he said were going ...
LAWRENCE MISHEL We've cut a $3 trillion hole in the budget for the next three years for tax cuts he said were going ...
LAWRENCE MISHEL The unstated message [of Bush's tax cuts] was that we were not all in this together, ... and, whatev...
ROBERT PUTNAM The tax cuts have a lot of momentum. For something like the estate tax or the alternative minimum ta...
MAYA MACGUINEAS![]()
As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can’t guarantee I’m going to be ...
MEREDITH WILD![]()
Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it.
MEREDITH WILD We also believe that we will need further interest rate cuts in the near future.
DAVID KERN The cuts would have the effect of an additional Sept. 11.
ROC ARNETT The president is 100 percent for extending the tax cuts for 98.7 percent of small businesses.
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE I am proposing a balanced budget and at this point, I am proposing no rate increases. I am proposing...
KEVIN EVANS If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the dea...
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CARLO PONFOORT
It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experien... ARTHUR LAFFER There's no doubt that the effect of the tax cuts . . . have been an enormous factor in producing the...
JOSHUA B. BOLTEN The $8.2 billion surplus would provide approximately 35 cents in property tax rate cuts for Texans f...
BROOKE ROLLINS
So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we... JIM WALLIS The economy needs stimulus now, so bring forward some [of the] tax cuts [scheduled for later years],...
JOSHUA FEINMAN
Over the past 100 years, there have been three major periods of tax-rate cuts in the U.S.: the Hardi... ARTHUR LAFFER The House agrees on one thing: The vast majority of tax cuts must go into the pockets of individuals...
REP. WAYNE HARPER The minutes didn't change the outlook for the interest rate moves priced into the market. The Fed is...
MICHAEL DARDA I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 shou...
BRAD SCHNEIDER If Republicans were to regain control of the Senate, the probabilities of some major tax cuts would ...
PAUL KASRIEL There are two components that go into a bill -- the gas cost rate and the base rate. This request is...
JAY DAWSON I think, in effect, in most of the European countries, the total marginal tax rate is over 50 percen...
JAMES MIRRLEES
That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON
Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temp... DOC HASTINGS The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't t...
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE The magnitude of money is unique. And it's unique when you go into a session and both parties are ta...
KURT WENNER To focus capital and entrepreneurship into empowering innovation, we should change is the capital ga...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN Tax cuts would probably flow directly into corporate profits. Companies are lean and mean today, com...
CHRISTINE CALLIES Realistically, it's going to be very, very hard to extend existing tax cuts under current circumstan...
BRUCE BARTLETT
it was more like two scared kids huddling in the dark when they knew the monster under the bed wasn'... LAURELL K. HAMILTON My healthcare plan puts more money into average families' pockets than the Bush tax cuts... He&#...
DICK GEPHARDT
When our Homeland Security Alert System goes to orange, our state and local governments' budgets go ... MARK UDALL The concern with the economy is that the stimulus from the tax cuts and the rate cuts may be fading....
BILL STRAZZULLO Manufacturing has already been in an a recession ... but we were looking for a fourth-quarter turnar...
HANK COX This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forw...
LYSLE BRINKER The households that will benefit from these two tax cuts are quite well off, and furthermore they've...
JOEL FRIEDMAN This [budget cuts] is part of a reoccurring problem under the Lula government.
EDUARDO ROCHE I'm all in favor of the tax cuts, but I think that the administration has to eat their spinach along...
CHRIS EDWARDS
A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went u... SENATOR JOHN KERRY
I am worried that it seems inconsistent and unsustainable for the president to be asking for large t... HILLARY CLINTON
No one in my district is asking for tax cuts. ANTHONY WEINER All of the top candidates have said that they want to repeal some or all of the Bush tax cuts, but C...
DON LUSKIN First and foremost, we believe in tax cuts,
JOHN KASICH I think the tax cuts were too big, and I am worried about the deficit. You have to pay it back at so...
GEORGE DAVIS Early indications are that voters aren't up in arms demanding big tax cuts.
STUART ROTHENBERG You can only shove shit under your bed for so long before it starts moving around and wanting to get...
LILI ST. CROW It will cannibalize, but the difference is you have a 50 percent tax rate and you have a slot parlor...
WILLIAM SCHMITT Rate cuts may spur credit growth, however a government will have to keep a closer eye on it's inflat...
SANJEEWA FERNANDO
The sad truth is all of this is to pay for tax cuts to for the wealthiest people in our country. NANCY PELOSI There's a right way and a wrong way to cut taxes. The Republican tax cuts reward the few, our tax cu...
TOM DASCHLE
If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're je... CRAIG GROESCHEL We are operating under the assumption that they will extend.
JAY DAWSON It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services.....
LAURA MILLER The debate on interest-rate cuts is still a live one.
SIMON RUBINSOHN
The Laffer Curve illustrates the basic idea that changes in tax rates have two effects on tax revenu... ARTHUR LAFFER
Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and t... RUSH LIMBAUGH Not only will these tax cuts - mainly for the super wealthy and big corporations - wipe out the savi...
DIANE FARRELL The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to...
RICHARD NEAL
The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption. ALAN DEAN FOSTER Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS We believe that this tax rate, at 20 percent, is a significant increase in tax and may lead us to no...
RICHARD OWEN Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is und...
P. J. O'ROURKE
The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the a... THOMAS SOWELL It is totally about tax cuts. Our current deficits are not the result of critical spending to help l...
SCOTT MCCOWN John Kerry has fought for middle-class tax relief and has proposed new middle-class tax cuts in this...
DAVID WADE I believe tax cuts should be responsible and targeted, ... This year, Congress is working on last ye...
AMERICAN SOCIETY The impacts of the income-tax cuts passed last year are being equated into higher refund payments se...
BRAD COWGILL
Under Ronald Reagan - who cut the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent - black income, busines... LARRY ELDER We need to have tax relief for those who really need tax relief. The concept of tax cuts is fine, bu...
CHARLES CARRIER And we can't have that completely counteracted by a big, big tax increase by not making the current ...
DAVID VITTER I would be surprised if there weren't a lot of tax cuts this year.
IRIS LAV
Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we&#... ALAN GREENSPAN We can't just talk dollars when you talk about these cuts. These are impacting real people. Bush's b...
DEBORAH WEINSTEIN Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spendi...
STEVE CHABOT There was a growing undercurrent of discontent by fiscal conservatives kept under wraps because Bush...
CHRIS EDWARDS I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.
VITO FOSSELLA I conduct all my nighttime activities under the assumption that my wife is awake, that she never fal...
SAYED KASHUA
The 'single tax' is so simple, so fundamental, and so easy to carry into effect that I have no doubt... CLARENCE DARROW It's no coincidence at all that we've had strong economic growth after the tax cuts.
DAN MITCHELL It's certainly the prerogative of Democrats to vote against tax cuts if that's how they feel,
ARI FLEISCHER It's the combination of massive tax cuts combined with massive spending on Iraq and Katrina when we ...
KENT CONRAD It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
KEN JENNINGS The budget does not adequately fund important domestic programs, promotes tax cuts to the detriment ...
JAMES JEFFORDS It's hard to believe that Congress could see more tax cuts for the rich as a priority.
ROBERT MCINTYRE
Now is not the time to further tax cuts for millionaires which would cost $32 billion a year or more... DIANNE FEINSTEIN What Greenspan had to say is very bullish -- he's saying let's have tax cuts sooner rather than late...
BRIAN FINNERTY The president is committed to making tax cuts for the richest one percent permanent. There are trade...
EMANUEL CLEAVER It was a prioritization that said tax cuts are the central need of government. It didn't talk about ...
ROD SMITH How much more evidence does the government need that across-the-board corporate tax-cuts are a drag ...
KEN GEORGETTI We were promised that if we gave huge tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, the benefits would trick...
TOM DASCHLE [And at a Capitol Hill news conference, Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that huge tax cut...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS We have said throughout the campaign that New Zealanders would pay for National's tax cuts through h...
MICHAEL CULLEN Taxes are usually permanent, but tax cuts aren't.
PEGGY VENABLE
They're for tax cuts and against them. They're for NAFTA and against NAFTA. They're for the Patriot ... GEORGE W. BUSH This year we're debating about what taxes we're going to cut, not whether we're going to have any ta...
JOE NEGRON I don't approve of any new tax cuts until we can control our spending and address these deficits,
LINCOLN CHAFEE He's proposing tax cuts that are clearly not affordable. If they were affordable, he would do them a...
FRANK MAURO Instead of corporate sponsorship, what they should do is band together and demand that tax cuts get ...
GARY RUSKIN We've cut a $3 trillion hole in the budget for the next three years for tax cuts he said were going ...
LAWRENCE MISHEL We've cut a $3 trillion hole in the budget for the next three years for tax cuts he said were going ...
LAWRENCE MISHEL The unstated message [of Bush's tax cuts] was that we were not all in this together, ... and, whatev...
ROBERT PUTNAM The tax cuts have a lot of momentum. For something like the estate tax or the alternative minimum ta...
MAYA MACGUINEAS
As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can’t guarantee I’m going to be ... MEREDITH WILD
Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it. MEREDITH WILD We also believe that we will need further interest rate cuts in the near future.
DAVID KERN The cuts would have the effect of an additional Sept. 11.
ROC ARNETT The president is 100 percent for extending the tax cuts for 98.7 percent of small businesses.
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE I am proposing a balanced budget and at this point, I am proposing no rate increases. I am proposing...
KEVIN EVANS If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the dea...
KIT BOND
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