Tom Daschle Quotes

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes-I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em

By the way, my tax cut is the biggest since Ronald Reagan. I'm very proud of it.

I don't hear anything from Trump about tax increases. I hear tax cuts from him. I hear tax reform from him.

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

I'm not going to raise taxes.

Raise the taxes, and we find less money in our pockets. Lower the taxes, and we've got more money in those pockets, and we spend it on all kinds of things.

I'm going to cut taxes big league, and you're going to raise taxes big league, end of story.

[T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.

This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.

Well, my plan, actually Larry Kudlow, who's a fantastic guy, I think likes my plan the most. I'm cutting taxes by about the most.

Tax credits instead of a huge bureaucracy. This is the question for me.

The reality is (Clinton's) so-called tax cut is basically giving money to people who largely don't pay taxes, so that it's really spending rather than a tax cut, ... This Week.

You [Republicans] are not going to cut taxes. You're going to raise taxes on the middle class.

We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place.

I will veto any tax increase.

But the point you need to know is that no president at war cut taxes $1.5 trillion, like Bush did.

It's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.

Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last thing America needs is more of the Democrats' class warfare that has left our economy a barren landscape.

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

I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.

As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

The president is 100 percent for extending the tax cuts for 98.7 percent of small businesses.