Mikie Sherrill Quotes

The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code.

Families in my community have seen their taxes go up because of the SALT deduction cap and as a result are questioning whether or not they can afford to live in New Jersey. The loss of the full SALT deduction puts an undue hardship on them.

New Jerseyans knew that the SALT deduction cap would hurt.

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world.

While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day.

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.

A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

I will cut all state taxes by at least one third.

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

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.

We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.

We really need to change taxation policy so that it is not skewed against owning more than one house.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

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

Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly.

Tax should be the same for everybody.

Although the reasons for Michigan's malaise are varied, one big reason is our state's almost uniquely uncompetitive tax structure, which one General Motors official called the costliest of all jurisdictions where GM operates.

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.

President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support: mom and pop businesses should not pay a higher tax rate than Fortune 500 corporations like Warren Buffett's.

The 55% of American households that make less than $40,000 will get a tax break of only $7 while the households that make more than $1 million will receive an average tax break of $32,000.

The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.