Tom Daschle Cut Quotations

We were promised that if we gave huge tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, the benefits would trickle down, deficits would disappear and the economy would flourish.

If you make over $300,000 a year, this tax cut means you get to buy a new Lexus, ... If you make $50,000 a year you get to buy a muffler on your used car. That's the difference.

Instead of passing another big tax cut that we can't afford -- a tax cut that leaves out middle-class families -- we need a fair, responsible tax cut,

We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.

I think the $1.6 or the $2.5 trillion tax cut as it was originally proposed could be officially proclaimed as dead,

Forty-three percent of their tax benefits go to people earning an average of $900,000, ... We want to provide a cut for families that pay only payroll taxes, who would not be helped under the president's plan.

This across-the-board cut has nothing to do with ridding ourselves of waste, ... This goes to muscle and bone of programs.

I'm disappointed really that the House is going off on all of its tangents once again, ... The capital gains cut apparently is alive and well over there and an array of other things that are just handouts to those who probably don't need it.

Our tax cut has to fit in within a responsible budget,

The gimmickry in this bill is enough to make an Enron executive blush.

Second, the tax cut must be fair to all Americans. Third, it must allow us to pay down the debt,

President Bush and I both support a tax cut and I am confident that we can agree on a plan that benefits all Americans, not just the wealthy.

I can't think of anything that would divide this nation more quickly, right off the bat, than to impress upon the Congress the importance of passing a tax cut of that magnitude,

But now a memo forecasts administration plans for billions of dollars of cuts to America's veterans, schools, health care, homeland defense, worker-training programs and medical research,