“We want to repeal the ObamaCare tax. We want to save middle class families from European health care. And that's what we're going to do as a party and that's what Mitt Romney will do on day one.” WantCarePartyClassMiddleTaxesHealth CareMiddle ClassRomneyObamacareMiddle Class Family Author:Reince Priebus
“Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.” OpportunityClassMiddleTaxesBenefitsBillsCongressFavorsReliefMiddle ClassWealthyDeficitDeductions Author:Rick Larsen
“I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.” HelpingClassCuttingMiddleDemandTaxesFavorsMiddle ClassExtensionsRecessionsTax Cuts Author:Peter Welch
“We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans, and college for every young person who wants to go. In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future. In policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class. These are the policies I have fought for my entire career.” PeopleWantPersonsCareYoungEnergyGrowsClassCareersEconomyCuttingMiddlePolicyCollegeTaxesHealth CareLiftsMiddle ClassWagesTax CutsNew Energy Author:Barack Obama
“Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.” PeopleIfsNeedsHelpingWantedSchoolPoorClassRichCuttingMiddleTaxesMiddle ClassWealthyHealthcareInfrastructureHelping PeopleTax CutsRobbing Author:Robert Reich
“Wes Clark put forward a middle-class tax plan, but it only helps a quarter of middle-class families, none without minor children at home. And mine helps 98 percent of the middle class.” ChildrenHelpingHomeClassPlansMiddleMinesTaxesPercentMiddle ClassQuartersMinorsMiddle Class Family Author:Joe Lieberman
“In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.” ShouldJobsMiddleTaxesIncreaseKillingDefeatedJustifiedRecessionsTax Increases Author:Newt Gingrich
“One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.” MadeStatesHandsSeemsAmericaIndividualSocialClassSupportEconomicMiddleBalanceTaxesConsequenceMedicineFinancialBurdenCampaignsIncomeDependentMiddle ClassReservesHousingIncome TaxInsidiousSocial SystemsAvidMiddle Class FamilySocialized Medicine Author:William Henry Chamberlin
“Government spending is always a “tax” burden on the American people and is never equally or fairly distributed. The poor and low-middle income workers always suffer the most from the deceitful tax of inflation and borrowing.” PeopleGovernmentSufferingPoorMiddleTaxesLowsWorkersBurdenSpendingIncomeInflationBorrowingDeceitfulGovernment SpendingTax Burden Author:Ron Paul
“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.” EndsFightingPoorClassBreakStruggleRichMiddleTaxesExtraordinaryMiddle ClassAfghanistanTax BreaksMega Author:Warren Buffett
“Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class.” ValuesPoorClassMiddleTaxesDollarsMiddle ClassReservesViciousSinisterFederal Reserve Author:Ron Paul
“Life isn't perfect and that's the kind of world where Jesus showed up. He wasn't born in a palace on a perfect day. He was born in the middle of the night during tax season to an unwed couple in a stable or a cave in a sheep field. That was God's way of showing us that nothing is perfect. Life is chaotic. It's messy. That's what Jesus was stepping into.” WorldWayKindLife IsNightJesusBornPerfectMiddleFieldsCoupleTaxesSeasonsSheepStableCavesPalacesMessyChaoticMiddle Of The NightPerfect LifePerfect DaysNothing Is Perfect Author:Louie Giglio
“I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will provide middle class payroll tax relief to get money in the pockets of workers who will spend it, not more tax giveaways for those at the top to stimulate the economy in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. A President who will index the minimum wage to inflation and raise it from a 30 year low, not increase the tax burden on the middle class and those struggling to join it.” ThinkingYearsRealJobsPresidentClassStruggleEconomyEconomicMiddleSecurityTaxesLowsIncreaseRaisesWorkersBurdenIslandsReliefMiddle ClassPocketsMinimumGood JobInflationMinimum WageGet MoneyPayrollEconomic SecurityPayroll TaxTax BurdenBermudaCayman Islands Author:John F. Kerry
“The middle classes shouldn’t be getting tax cuts, while those in tough, poorly paid jobs, who are already running out of money at the start of the month, are getting their benefits cut. That’s not one-nation conservatism; it’s two nations conservatism.” TwoRunningJobsNationsClassCuttingMiddleMonthsTaxesBenefitsToughPaidMiddle ClassConservatismTax CutsTwo Nations Author:Tim Montgomerie
“I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class.” MovingClassSupportMiddlePolicyTaxesRaisesCodeMiddle ClassZeroRegulationRollingSmall BusinessRaise UpBudgeting Author:Carly Fiorina
“If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an American, then you have to - the only way to achieve fiscal sustainability is through unacceptably deep cuts in benefits for middle class seniors, or unacceptably deep cuts in national security.” IfsKnowsWayTryingAsksClassCuttingMiddleAchieveSecurityBearsTaxesBenefitsPrivilegeBurdenReformFortunateMiddle ClassSustainabilitySeniorNational SecurityRevenueTax Reform Author:Timothy Geithner
“We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave.” WorldNeedsHelpingJobsAmericaGoalClassEnvironmentFiveMiddleTaxesHighestPercentWorkersRateCorporateThirtyMiddle ClassAmerican Business Author:Lindsey Graham
“So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under Bill Clinton. Back when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and plenty of millionaires to boot. ... At the same time, most people agree that we should not raise taxes on middle-class families or small businesses -- not when so many folks are just trying to get by.” PeopleShouldTryingYearsBelieveJobsClassMillionsEconomyMiddleTaxesRaisesAgreeBillsClintonRateFolksIncomeRadicalPlentyBudgetsMiddle ClassBootsSmall BusinessMillionaireIncome TaxBack WhenSurplusNew JobJust BelieveMiddle Class Family Author:Barack Obama
“God forbid that Americans earning, say, more than $1 million a year be asked to pony up a little more in taxes to support a larger military at a time when, we are told over and over, the country is in the middle of a war on terror. Millionaires can't be asked to sacrifice even just a little bit. No, they deserve to have their taxes cut while others fight and die.” YearsLittlesWarCountryDiesFightingBitsMillionsSupportCuttingSacrificeMiddleMilitaryTaxesLittle BitDeserveTerrorEarningMillionaireWar On TerrorTax CutsPonies Author:E. J. Dionne
“The biggest roadblock to middle-class economic advancement is that governments confiscate more than a third of all family income. Each year the average American taxpayer works 127 days - from January 1 until May 7 - just to pay taxes.” YearsMayGovernmentPayClassEconomicMiddleTaxesThirdsAverageIncomeMiddle ClassAdvancementTaxpayersJanuaryRoadblockJanuary 1 Author:Thomas DiLorenzo
“In the name of short-term stimulus, he [Obama] will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of $1,000 euphemistically called a refundable tax credit. And he will so sharply cut taxes on the middle class and the poor that the number of Americans who pay no federal income tax will rise from the current one-third of all households to more than half. In the process, he will create a permanent electoral majority that does not pay taxes, but counts on ever-expanding welfare checks from the government.” GivingDoeGovernmentNamesProcessTermPoorNumbersPayHalfClassCuttingMiddleTaxesThirdsMajorityCurrentsCreditIncomeChecksPermanentWelfareMiddle ClassHouseholdExpandingShort TermStimulusIncome TaxAmerican Family Author:Dick Morris
“Contrary to the rhetoric emanating from the American left, the 'rich' are currently paying a lot more than 'their fair share.' It is only a handful of mega-rich, those whose entire incomes are derived from dividends and capital gains, rather than salaries or business profits, who have the ability to pay lower tax rates than some members of the middle class. The left knows this but continues to build their 'freeloading millionaire' straw man because it makes good politics.” KnowsMenLeftAbilityPayClassRichShareMiddleTaxesMembersGainsFairsRateProfitContraryIncomeMiddle ClassRhetoricHandfulSalaryMillionaireStrawsDividendsFair ShareMegaCapital Gains Author:Peter Schiff
“President [Barack] Obama's staking his reelection hopes on rebuilding America's middle class. He wants higher taxes on the wealthy, tougher rules on Wall Street, and everyone else to get a fair shot to succeed. Republicans can cry "class warfare" if they want, but as the president put it today, it's about this country's welfare.” IfsWantCountryTodayAmericaPresidentClassStreetsMiddleCryWallHigherRepublicanSucceedTaxesShotsFairsBarackWelfareMiddle ClassWealthyWarfarePresident Barack ObamaRebuildingClass WarfareReelection Author:Chris Matthews
“The income tax was devised to give lawyers and certified public accountants business. Few persons can make head, tail, or middle out of it. Einstein admitted he couldn't.” GivingPersonsMiddleTaxesLawyerIncomeTailsIncome TaxAccountantsCertified Public Accountant Author:W. C. Fields
“The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.” PeopleMeanSelfValuesAsksStuffInterestMy OwnClassMiddleTaxesVoteRaisesElectionRaisedMiddle ClassSelf Interest Author:Matt Damon
“I'll go anywhere and I'll do whatever it takes to get this done. It's too important for Washington to screw this up. Now's the time for us to work on what we all agree to, which is let's keep middle-class taxes low. That's what our economy needs. That's what the American people deserve.” PeopleNeedsImportantDoneClassEconomyMiddleTaxesLowsDeserveAgreeMiddle ClassScrewsWhatever It Takes Author:Barack Obama
“In the Washington soft money game, big business and big labor are accomplices working together to protect the mushy middle of big government, with plenty of special interest plums: Big unions get big spending and big business gets corporate welfare and special tax breaks - all at the expense of average Americans.” BigsGovernmentTogetherGamesInterestBreakMiddleSpecialProtectTaxesLaborUnionsAverageSpendingPlentyCorporateWelfareWorking TogetherExpensesSpecial InterestsBig BusinessBig GovernmentPlumsAccomplicesTax Breaks Author:John McCain
“Health care is still the number-one issue out there. Someone who seizes it, I think, will do very well in an election. Let's face it: Clinton's two big issues were the middle class tax cut, which he dropped, wisely, at the time to help reduce the deficit, and health care. That's what he ran on.” ThinkingWellsStillsTwoHelpingBigsCareFacesNumbersClassIssuesCuttingMiddleTaxesElectionClintonHealth CareRanMiddle ClassDeficitTax Cuts Author:Russ Feingold
“I do believe that we should substantially lower student debt in this country, which is crushing millions of people. We pay for it, in my view, by a tax on Wall Street speculation. The middle class bailed out Wall Street in their time of need. Now, it is Wall Street's time to help the middle class.” PeopleNeedsShouldBelieveCountryHelpingViewsPayClassMillionsStreetsMiddleStudentsWallTaxesDebtCrushMiddle ClassSpeculationTime Of Need Author:Bernie Sanders
“I'm not going to tell people that I will raise your incomes and not your taxes, and not mean it, because I don't want to see the kind of struggle that the middle class is going through exemplified by these promises that would raise taxes and make it much more difficult for many, many Americans to get ahead and stay ahead. That is not my agenda.” PeopleWantKindMeanDifficultClassStruggleMiddlePromiseTaxesRaisesIncomeMiddle ClassAgendasGet Ahead Author:Hillary Clinton
“What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief.” NeedsBelieveClassMiddleTaxesReliefMiddle ClassWorking ClassRecessions Author:Bernie Sanders
“First of all, she Hillary Clinton is going to raise taxes on the middle class. I actually think that's the only truthful thing she's said in about three weeks.” ThinkingFirstsSaidThreeClassWeekMiddleTaxesRaisesClintonMiddle ClassTruthful Author:Rudy Giuliani
“If Donald Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.” IfsSaidWould BeClassMiddleTrumpTaxesNewsRaisesMiddle ClassSanityQuestioning Author:Rudy Giuliani
“The G20 was established as a forum to discuss, first and foremost, world economic issues. If we load it with... Of course, politics affects economic processes, this is obvious, but if we bring some squabbles, or not squabbles, rather, some matters that are really important but relate purely to world politics, we will overload the G20 agenda and instead of addressing such issues as finance, structural economic reforms, tax evasion and so forth, we will engage in endless debates concerning the Syrian crisis or some other global challenges, of which there are many, or the Middle East problem.” IfsWorldFirstsImportantMatterProblemCoursesProcessChallengesIssuesEconomicMiddleTaxesCrisisObviousEastDebateEndlessFinanceReformRelateAgendasMiddle EastLoadForumsEvasionOverloadEconomic IssuesSquabblesWorld PoliticsEconomic ReformsTax Evasion Author:Vladimir Putin
“In California we froze property taxes, school size increased, test scores declined, and there was a massive middle-class white flight to private schools. We're turning into Victorian England at a very rapid rate.” SchoolWhiteClassMiddleTaxesTestsEnglandPropertyRateSizeFlightCaliforniaScoreMiddle ClassMassiveRapidsVictorianPrivate SchoolTest ScoresProperty Taxes Author:Robert Hass
“Let's at least acknowledge who is working in America right now and what our needs are, as well as the moral question of somebody who's been here 20 years, paying taxes to which they probably do not receive a refund, and not committing any crimes, working hard, and supporting an industry. Shouldn't there be some middle ground here? Shouldn't there be a way for them to be welcome in this country?” WayNeedsYearsWellsCountryHardAmericaMoralMiddleCrimeIndustryRight NowTaxesWelcomeAcknowledgeMiddle GroundPaying TaxesRefunds Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession, the worst since the 1930s. That was in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off of Wall Street, and created a perfect storm.” YearsEyeRememberPerfectClassStreetsMiddleWorstPolicyWallTaxesYears AgoCrisisFinancialEightStormMiddle ClassWealthyRecessions1930sFinancial CrisisGreat RecessionPerfect Storm Author:Hillary Clinton
“Independent experts have looked at what I've proposed and looked at what Donald's [Trump] proposed, and basically they've said this, that if his tax plan, which would blow up the debt by over $5 trillion and would in some instances disadvantage middle-class families compared to the wealthy, were to go into effect, we would lose 3.5 million jobs and maybe have another recession.” IfsSaidJobsLosesClassMillionsPlansMiddleEffectsTrumpTaxesIndependentBlowDebtInstanceExpertsMiddle ClassWealthyDisadvantagesRecessionsMiddle Class Family Author:Hillary Clinton
“You [Republicans] are not going to cut taxes. You're going to raise taxes on the middle class.” ClassCuttingMiddleRepublicanTaxesRaisesMiddle Class Author:Tim Kaine
“If you're a rich guy, the best thing you can do is demand tax increases on the rich. That way the poor guy will leave you alone. The middle class and the poor will leave you alone.” IfsWayGuyCan DoPoorClassRichMiddleDemandTaxesIncreaseBest ThingsMiddle ClassTax Increases Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Donald Trump would end up raising taxes on middle-class families.” EndsClassMiddleTrumpTaxesMiddle ClassMiddle Class FamilyRaising Taxes Author:Hillary Clinton
“Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.” YearsMadePoorFourMiddlePolicyTaxesYears AgoIncomeBudgetsFour YearsPledge Author:Bob Beauprez
“I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.” ShouldLastsClassEconomyCuttingMiddleTaxesPercentRaisesMiddle ClassTax Cuts Author:Barack Obama
“The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.” WantLastsEconomyMiddleDemandTaxesRaisesHolesRecessions Author:Barack Obama
“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.” WayInspirationalClassCuttingMiddleTaxesRefuseMiddle ClassOur SocietyMillionaireBillionaireDecemberTax CutsPersonal Leadership Author:Barack Obama
“By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.” LevelsClassCuttingMiddleTaxesClaimsDemocratRateMiddle ClassTax Cuts Author:John Podhoretz
“Let me tell you, the heart of my tax proposal: I will not raise taxes on the American people. I will not raise taxes on middle-income Americans.” PeopleHeartMiddleTaxesLet MeRaisesIncomeProposal Author:Mitt Romney
“And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.” FirstsAmericaPresidentLibertyClassClearMiddleHonorProtectTaxesLet MeRaisesInstitutionsGuaranteesMiddle ClassPresident ObamaSanctityFreedom Of ReligionSanctity Of Life Author:Mitt Romney