Tom Daschle Tax Quotations

With regard to fairness perhaps the most important element is to ensure that we provide the bulk of tax relief to working families.

That is probably the key factor in support of any tax measure, whether we have that $35 billion locked in or not,

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.

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

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.

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.

Let us be clear, ... All Americans deserve a tax cut. But surely, the wealthiest among us should not get it at the expense of working families. There's a better way.

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

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

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 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.

They don't want a $1.6 trillion dollar tax cut. Now they want a $3.2 trillion dollar tax cut. I don't know why they don't just give the entire federal budget away,

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,

There is absolutely no room for compromise on that tax cut,

The tax break the president is said to be proposing is the wrong idea at the wrong time to help the wrong people, ... The plan the president is considering would almost exclusively go to the wealthiest Americans.

I hope the president will agree to reduce the tax breaks for the very wealthy in order to restore this tax relief for hardworking taxpayers who need it most,

explain to the American people why they want to use Social Security trust funds for the tax cut.