Statements about Taxes
"We passed without, frankly, the help of the Republican caucus, we passed 25 tax cuts last year, mostly aimed at the middle class and small businesses."
"We lowered the business tax from 4 percent down to 1 percent."
“The largest tax increase that we have ever had in our state is yours – it is the business margins tax that you signed, governor.”
"If you want to talk firsts for Bush, this was the first time in American history that a president took us into a war and cut taxes."
"Ninety-eight percent of the American people will not see their taxes go up" due to the House health care bill.
Under the House health care bill, the government "will have to penalize citizens if we choose not to buy a plan that will cost a minimum of about $15,000 per family per year."
"I signed the largest single tax cut in the history of Florida, a $25 billion tax cut over five years, directed at property tax cuts."
Research shows the employer mandate in the House health reform bill would "place millions 'at substantial risk of unemployment' — with minority workers losing their jobs at twice the rate of their white counterparts."
Three presidents in the last century — Harding, Kennedy and Reagan — all cut taxes during recessions and produced "rapid and dramatic economic recoveries," while two, Herbert Hoover and Barack Obama, did "the opposite."
You must list all your guns on your 2010 tax return.
The Democrats' health care bill "gives a new Health Choices Commissioner the right to look at an individual's tax return to determine what medical benefits or subsidies that person qualifies for."
A new federal program provides subsidized "Obama phones" with 70 free minutes of cell phone service every month.
The proposed excise tax on "Cadillac" health plans will hit "those making less than $200,000" the hardest.
Health proposal would create a "40% tax on health care benefits of middle-class workers."
The Baucus health care bill "would drastically restrict the use of flexible spending accounts (FSAs) in order to help pay for health care reform."
The Baucus health care bill would require taxes on medical devices such as X-ray machines, female condoms, HIV tests and surgical needles.
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