Kevin Yoder Quotes

It's not hard to cut taxes.

Reduced marginal tax rates on individuals and business fosters growth every time.

I will not stand for any tax increase for middle class or working Americans. There is no way I will support that.

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

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

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

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

Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive.

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.

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

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.

The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.

Capital gains tax reduction is the ultimate now-nowism.

The revenue derived from a graduated income tax should be applied to the reduction of the burden of taxation now levied upon the domestic industries of this country.

And I will repeat today what I have said throughout this campaign. I will not raise taxes on the middle class. I will give you tax relief to help ease these burdens.

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

We have to reduce the tax burden, whether it's income tax for corporations or private individuals, and we should put a freeze on property taxes.

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

Here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut. And if you make less than $250,000, less than a quarter-million dollars a year, then you will not see one dime's worth of tax increase.

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.

The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.

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.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.