Joseph R. Biden Jr. Quotes

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

My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.

You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

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.

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

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

That tax relief can spur the economy and thereby benefit all Americans is something that Washington Democrats used to understand. President Kennedy, for example, aggressively cut taxes after being elected to stimulate the economy as a means of helping all Americans.

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.

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.

Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.

It's not hard to cut taxes.

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

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

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

Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.

I am very concerned about anything that says 'revenue' because let's just be honest; revenue for Democrats has become code for tax increases.

The real reason to oppose increasing tax rates on the wealthy is that it's a good bet they could do more to help the economy if they keep their money rather than have their earnings confiscated by the government and spent on another round of stimulus.

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

... with a cash machine like an income tax, the state legislature will go wild and go on a spending spree.

I am a supply sider. If you cut the right taxes, you will make more money.

In unforeseen or exceptional circumstances, the exceptional burdens placed on the national treasury can be better served by general taxes … than though new forced loans, levies, or as yet undiscovered resources, is surely incontrovertible.

If we lower the payroll tax, will Americans let us raise it again? I don't think so.