Kathy Szeliga Quotes

The middle class is the group in this country that has been taken for a ride.

When a liberal says they are going to soak the rich, the middle class will get drenched.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

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.

We've created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we're not growing fast, income is not growing.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it's ridiculous, OK?

Americans feel squeezed between prices that are rising and wages which are not.

We are blessed by a large middle class in this country and the middle class will always pay the lion's share of the taxes.

The tax structure of the United States is fast becoming the most regressive of any Western nation.

The middle class is at the heart of our budget problem.

You Republicans say that you are for tax cuts. Let’s see if you will fight for middle class tax cuts as hard as you fight for tax cuts for the oil companies and the rich. Show us what you’ve got!!!

The middle class took the taxpayers money and benefits to go to school and get rich and now they don’t want to pay the taxes to pay for the poor of the next generation to have the same opportunity.

The reformocons court right-wing censure simply by acknowledging that the middle class is under pressure and that government has a role to play beyond cutting taxes.

The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live paycheck to paycheck.

Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.

That darn luxury tax is pretty painful.

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.

What hinders the middle class the most is taxes, and what hinders business from creating jobs and moving people into the middle class are regulations.

Progressive taxation can offset the effect of growing inequality.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.

It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.