Adam Hasner Quotes

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.

I support a progressive state income tax.

'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That's not a tax raise. That's called fairness where I come from.

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

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

My position has been consistent that middle class families should not pay more taxes. That hasn't changed.

A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find this attractive.

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.

Victory Tax

We demand a graduated income tax.

It seems idle to speculate in the abstract as to whether or not a progressive income tax schedule rising to rates in excess of 70 percent are justifiable …. The fact is that such rates cannot be successfully collected.

Making the rich pay the same tax rates on their investment earnings that the rest of us pay on our earnings would be a good start [towards tax reform].

Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.

We need to restore the Bush tax cuts or actually make them permanent.

Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class.

I don't support any increase in income tax rates.

I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero. The U.S. has the most antiquated tax system. And that means some people are going to pay more taxes, and some people are going to pay less.

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

Having won re-election convincingly and against the economic odds, President Obama quickly made good on his promise of maintaining taxes as they are for the middle class while raising them on the wealthiest Americans.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

The only question where there is disagreement is should the highest income rates above a quarter million dollars a year go back to where they were under Bill Clinton. That is the dispute about the taxes.