Tax Breaks Quotes

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

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The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

No complicated scheme of relief, no plan for government fixing of prices, no resort to the Public Treasury will be of any value …

One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.

Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.

If you tax something, you get less of it. If you subsidize something, you get more of it.

Some of the huge tax breaks that we gave to the wealthiest 1 percent of the population in this country during the Bush era have contributed significantly to the deficit.

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

If a private investor is raising his hand and saying, 'I don't have the conditions with which to work,' then the government has the responsibility to create those conditions.

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

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

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

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

Capital gains tax reduction is the ultimate now-nowism.

Ford's federal income tax rate was just 2.3 percent in 2009 even though it made $3 billion in profits.

When Congress opens the government’s purse, the benefits flow to special interests rather than the public interest.

Taxes are way too complicated, and people spend way too much time worrying about ways to get them lower.

Only the little people pay taxes.

Introducing a social investment tax relief will make investment even more appealing and accessible.

Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consider the mortgage interest deduction. While political leaders in both parties have long considered it untouchable, it actually helps those at the top of the income scale far more than those at the bottom.

We need to even out the tax code for small businesses so that we lower their tax rate to 25 percent, just as we need to lower it for all businesses.

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

I will not stand for any tax increase for middle class or working Americans. There is no way I will support that.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.