Bob Beckel Quotes

Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.

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.

Tax cuts create more jobs and this is something we as Republicans have to do a better job of marketing.

If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling would've still been hit, because, those are bills that are coming in as a result of purchases and commitments made by the administration and the previous Congress.

We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.

In 2001, Congress passed much needed tax relief to allow Americans to keep more of their hard earned money and spend it as they see fit - rather than how the federal government sees fit.

We should stop arguing about tax cuts in this town.

I got elected to run the government more efficiently, lower taxes.

Government is not being honest with taxpayers when it renews existing tax breaks and calls them new tax cuts.

I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.

Twenty-five years ago, I created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge at the federal level. Then I brought it to the state and local level. About 97 percent of the Republicans in the House and 85 percent in the Senate have signed on, and the number of candidates who have taken the pledge is even higher. It's become a party position.

Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

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

The best legislator is the one who votes for all appropriations and against all taxes.

There is no difference, in fairness or economics, between lowering taxes on a favored group and spending money on a favored group.

There's a lot of evidence you can sell people on tax increases if they think its an investment.

Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I call the attention of the House to these bridge bills that are coming up .... This bill is typical of the type of bill that should be objected to.

Taxes are not something that lends to experimentation. You want to go slow, you could knock the whole economy into a cocked hat with experimentation.

We haven’t plugged a tax loophole in 10 or 15 years.

It doesn't cost money to let people keep more of their own money. It costs money to spend money you don't have, but that's another issue.

Many programs are built on the government's spending power, and the existence of an extraconstitutional limit on that power is a worrisome development.

I've made a commitment that any tax increase, I'm going to veto. It's the worst thing we could do. We have an amount of money to spend. That's it.

Raising taxes won't create private sector jobs.

When you compare the relatively modest tax that will ensue from prohibiting companies from receiving a subsidy and deducting that subsidy, the benefits dramatically outweigh the costs.

My grandfather was a popular senator, known as an advocate for fiscal responsibility, including the line-item veto for the president.