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Clearly everyone wants a tax cut but you can't have a tax cut for a surplus that you don't have,


Charles Rangel

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A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.
TONY ABBOTT We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut...
JOHN SPRATT Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirt...
PEG BRACKEN Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirt...
PEG BRACKEN Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.
GROVER NORQUIST Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN There will be a big tax cut for the middle class. But any tax cuts we have for the upper class will ...
STEVE MNUCHIN He got a tax cut of $100,000 and you only got $1.
PETER COSTELLO Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut ...
PETER GEORGE PETERSON You can't slam dunk a tax cut package the size they're talking about,
LEON PANETTA I can assure you that the House Ways and Means Committee has not abandoned trying to extend the divi...
JIM MCCRERY I think we need a tax cut,
RICHARD GEPHARDT The $864 billion Republican tax cut is a destructive plan that will eat the surplus alive and suck t...
LANE EVANS Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when...
MIKE PENCE Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut h...
PAUL RYAN The tax cut we put in place for next year is relatively modest. We probably can swallow that OK, but...
ROBERT REISCHAUER My healthcare plan puts more money into average families' pockets than the Bush tax cuts... He&#...
DICK GEPHARDT Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise.
PAUL O'NEILL We are absolutely determined to fight for what we believe is a much fairer tax cut and a much more c...
JOHN MCCALLUM I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
RANDY NEWMAN We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.
DICK ARMEY But middle-income families earning $40,000 a year can expect a tax cut of thirty dollars a year.
ROBERT MATSUI Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on...
ROGER WICKER If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ...
MITCH ALBOM You won't have to pay up if you don't have a tax liability or if you have overpaid tax for whatever ...
MIKE WARBURTON You cant find outside what you dont have inside.
CARL HAMMERSCHLAG It is wrong to use aviation taxes to finance a general tax cut,
BUD SHUSTER They've scheduled two hours debate on a trillion dollar tax cut. That's crazy.
RICHARD GEPHARDT It reveals that the tax cut is so big it gobbles up virtually the entire available surplus, forcing ...
RICHARD GEPHARDT It's got a big tax cut built into it. That's not a footnote, but a front and center important issue.
WILLIAM GALE We can wait 14 months, get a new president and then do a tax cut.
DON NICKLES Common sense told us that when you put a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it. S...
RONALD REAGAN There's a right way and a wrong way to cut taxes. The Republican tax cuts reward the few, our tax cu...
TOM DASCHLE Property tax is a huge problem in Rockford. We've got to constantly look for ways to cut back.
JOE SOSNOWSKI Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton t...
DICK GEPHARDT It's tax diversification. If tax rates go up, it would be nice to have a fund that you don't have to...
JAMES LANGE I think a tax cut would be a good thing if he has those larger ambitions.
MARK ALESSE As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan w...
RAND PAUL It's going to be a very targeted tax cut program that I think is going to make a meaningful differen...
FRANKLIN RAINES There's clearly a Democratic dilemma, ... But while other Democrats are debating how to change the B...
JOE LIEBERMAN We're not saying we should never have another tax cut anywhere or anytime. (But) passing this is not...
MATT FERGUSON I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress.
BILL ARCHER The deflation concerns give ammunition to the president's tax cut,
SUNG WON SOHN I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the stude...
JEANINE BASINGER Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to ele...
DICK MORRIS A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.
GEORGE W. BUSH This is completely and utterly predictable. People who don't pay taxes don't get a tax cut.
DAN MITCHELL Last week, the president suggested his tax cut will solve energy crisis. That is a bizarre and disco...
ROSA DELAURO People live for eating,but I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital...
GROVER NORQUIST You don't have a filing requirement because you don't have a tax due. But if you had withholding, yo...
MARK LUSCOMBE This budget reconciliation is a farce. What they want to do is cut our programs so they can put toge...
MIKE HONDA What Governor Romney is proposing is an across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates for households, e...
GLENN HUBBARD This year we're debating about what taxes we're going to cut, not whether we're going to have any ta...
JOE NEGRON Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be...
STEVE MNUCHIN Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the p...
RAND PAUL I'm all in favor of the tax cuts, but I think that the administration has to eat their spinach along...
CHRIS EDWARDS It amounts to an annual tax cut. Taxes are never low enough.
BRAD YOUNG marketing scheme designed to make last year's unpopular tax cut more palatable.
RICHARD GEPHARDT Like what's going to happen to the income tax cut that Mr. Martin brought in.
LINDA SIMS Ronald Reagan and George Bush pushed through programs that raised taxes on the middle class. I think...
BILL CLINTON Low-income Canadians benefit relatively little from these tax cuts, yet they may be hurt a great dea...
ELLEN RUSSELL His tax cut is so big that he leaves no money to pay for a new prescription drug benefit without usi...
KENT CONRAD If you were to look at Alaska simply with its corporate tax code compared to the rest of the United ...
SCOTT HODGE While the economy is strong and we have a surplus, we should seize the opportunity to enact broad-ba...
WILLIAM ROTH Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Oba...
GROVER NORQUIST There is no statewide tax revolt. Just cutting taxes ain't going to cut it. If you are in a competit...
JEFF CROSBY If you have a value-added tax you will have bigger government. When the dust settled 10 years in the...
DANIEL MITCHELL The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL A consumption tax, a national sales tax makes some sense. But I think that if we move towards a Fair...
KEN BUCK Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER In 2001, Republicans used reconciliation to pass President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut that ma...
BERNIE SANDERS This tax cut is bloated. It uses up the entire surplus. It provides not one cent for Medicare. It pr...
JOHN PODESTA Democratic amendments led to a package with a smaller tax cut, far more resources for paying down th...
KENT CONRAD explain to the American people why they want to use Social Security trust funds for the tax cut.
TOM DASCHLE Santa came early this year for polluting industries. Congress should play Scrooge and cut these dirt...
GAWAIN KRIPKE To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ...
GARY F EVANS... You're foursquare in a dilemma if you want to broaden the base and lower tax rates. If you broaden t...
SCOTT HODGE You could have it cut and have a customized diamond for your wife.
BRENDAN BELL When you face your maker, you're going to have to answer a number of questions. And he's not going t...
PAT BUCHANAN If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax ...
BARACK OBAMA If you have to change the law to get more money, that's a tax increase, and Americans for Tax Re...
GROVER NORQUIST You can't take the tax cut back from the American people, so let's get busy and get serious about ho...
RICHARD ARMEY If the government sends you a bill for $200 and you have to pay it, it's a tax.
JOE NEGRON These tax-cut proposals are especially encouraging. Cutting taxes on workers and businesses creates ...
DANIEL WALSH The key message here is sometimes you have to look not just at your own tax return, but that of your...
KATHY BURLISON the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant y...
ELIZABETH SCOTT It appears that the Democrats have had control in the state, county and local level for some time no...
JOE SINAGRA Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, c...
ALEC BALDWIN A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus ...
ANDREW MELLON We actually called our bipartisan tax cut the October plan, because we believe that there's the maki...
ROBERT TORRICELLI All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs,...
ANTHONY WEINER One more solid salvo from the Fed, combined with a tax cut, could be the combustible combination to ...
ALAN ACKERMAN We will continue to work with Republicans and Democrats in Congress to enact a tax cut plan consiste...
CLAIRE BUCHAN Most of us agree there's going to be a tax cut. The question is how much, how soon and who gets it.
JIM MCDERMOTT Tax cuts are fun to do. It's great to cut taxes, but it's not free. We've got to find a way to pay f...
JOHN BREAUX Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America...
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CHARLES STANLEY What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
CHARLES SPURGEON You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working i...
CHARLES JENCKS Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
RAY CHARLES Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a fami...
CHARLES EASTMAN The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the g...
CHARLES STANLEY The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...
CHARLES DICKENS There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find t...
CHARLES STANLEY I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
CHARLES DUHIGG The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can...
CHARLES DICKENS I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure...
CHARLES KENNEDY