Statements about Taxes
"In campaigns in the past with Sen. McCain and President George W. Bush and others, they have tended to release tax records in April."
"I delivered a flat tax for my state. I took my state to No. 1 in job creation. With all due respect to what Rick Perry has said about Texas, we did a little bit better."
Says he lived up to a 2008 promise when he "closed corporate tax loopholes that were sending profits overseas."
"Fifty percent of Speaker Gingrich’s tax plan goes to the top 1 percent."
"Traditionally, presidential candidates release their tax returns . . . Mitt Romney still won’t."
"Some billionaires have a tax rate as low as 1 percent."
For "the average middle-class family, your taxes today are lower than when I took office."
Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on a taxpayer protection pledge.
Says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction proposal urged raising $2 trillion in new revenue.
"Over half of the people who would be taxed under (a millionaire surtax) are, in fact, small businesspeople."
"We spend half a trillion dollars a year in tax preparation."
"We cut property taxes by one-third in the state of Texas while I’ve been governor."
The 9-9-9 plan "does not raise taxes on those that are making the least."
"When we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980, the top rate was 70 percent."
"I created a flat tax in the state of Utah. It took that state to the number-one position in terms of job creation."
"A construction worker who’s making $50 or $60 grand a year shouldn’t be paying higher tax rates than the guy who’s making $50 million a year. And that’s how it’s working right now."
"Since 1995, the top 400 wealthiest families have seen their incomes go up 400 percent and their tax rates go down 40 percent."
The jobs bill includes "President Obama's tax on soup kitchens"
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