The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

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

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.

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.