Statements about Taxes
"The expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts ... would be the biggest tax increase in the history of the country, about $4.6 trillion over 10 years."
Mitt Romney has "proposed cutting his own taxes while raising them on 18 million working families."
Says Mitt Romney is proposing a "tax cut that gives an average of $250,000 to every millionaire in this country."
The 30 percent tax rate called for under President Barack Obama’s proposed Buffett Rule "is lower than the prescribed tax rate for millionaires already -- not just for millionaires, for people making over $200,000."
"Republicans in Congress refuse to list a single tax loophole they are willing to close."
Says Ronald Reagan "understood repeatedly that when the deficit started to get out of control, that for him to make a deal he would have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases."
"Obamacare (hit) Americans with over $500 billion in new 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."
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