Chaka Fattah Quotes

Never before in the history of civilization has there been a tax cut in time of war.

It is time to recognize a simple fact of life. Contrary to what some of my colleagues seem to believe, tax cuts do not pay for themselves.

I think I should pay more taxes... but everything they take from me should go to reduce the debt.

There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.

You can always raise taxes on the rich, but that will not solve the deficit problem.

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.

Obama's claim is that he wants to give. The GOP is saying it wants to take.

If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country.

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn't work.

A long term tax cut is not a tax cut at all unless it is accompanied by a spending cut.

When is the last time we had a tax cut before going to war?

... with a cash machine like an income tax, the state legislature will go wild and go on a spending spree.

My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.

As president, Trump's economic proposals will bend our very economy and tax system to his purposes.

It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.

Voters want conflicting things. They want a lot of government spending, but they don't want higher taxes.

A tax cut would most certainly be my first choice rather than an increase in federal spending. Those who advocate that fail to see that spending not only continues in subsequent years, but it grows and grows.

I've made a promise that taxes would be my last resort on issues.

We want to make sure that tax reform doesn't increase the size of the deficit.