#tax cut

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

— Joe Baca

#creating #cuts #gave #instead #jobs

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#cut #giving #instead #people #pockets

When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.' ↗

— John Breaux

#care #cut #defense #god #going

Make no mistake, if the payroll-tax cut is extended, it will become permanent. Social Security will become another welfare program as the tie between what someone pays and what they receive gets broken. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#become #between #broken #cut #extended

Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#appealing #around #boom #creating #cuts

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand. ↗

— Peter Welch

#cuts #demand #extension #favor #help

Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#appetite #become #cuts #deregulation #even

Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise. ↗

— Paul O'Neill

#give #however #intention #might #our

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again. ↗

— Barack Obama

#again #agreed #because #billionaire #cannot

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq. ↗

— Tim Russert

#avoid #cuts #freeze #iraq #money