I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

Low-income Canadians benefit relatively little from these tax cuts, yet they may be hurt a great deal when child care and other programs are cut to pay for tax cuts that largely benefit high-income families.

A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up, their sales tax went up, and their prices went up and everything else, because we failed to invest in some of these other things we ought to be doing. ... We are squeezing the middle class, we are losing the middle class, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider and wider, not closing as it used to be.

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.

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