"I will keep taxes low and cut them where I can. My opponent will raise them."
John McCain on Thursday, September 4th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details
Barack Obama supports plans to raise "income taxes ... payroll taxes."
Sarah Palin on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 in a speech in St. Paul, Minn. >>Details
When oil and gas prices sent state revenues up, Palin sent "a large share of that revenue directly back to the people of Alaska."
Sarah Palin on Friday, August 29th, 2008 in Dayton, Ohio >>Details
While in the Illinois Senate, Barack Obama passed "tax cuts for hard-working families."
Michelle Obama on Monday, August 25th, 2008 in Denver >>Details
On Obama, “The press warns the ‘Taxman Cometh.’”
John McCain on Friday, August 15th, 2008 in >>Details
Obama "promises more taxes on small business, seniors, your life savings, your family."
John McCain on Friday, August 8th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
Obama plans "a tax increase for everyone earning more than $42,000 a year."
John McCain on Monday, August 11th, 2008 in an Internet ad >>Details
John McCain offers "billions in tax breaks for oil and drug companies, but almost nothing for families like yours."
Barack Obama on Monday, August 11th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
"Obama voted to raise taxes on people making just $42,000."
John McCain on Friday, August 8th, 2008 in in a television ad. >>Details
Barack Obama promises higher taxes on "the sale of your home."
John McCain on Friday, August 8th, 2008 in in a radio ad. >>Details
"Obama will charge a 28 percent tax on all home sales."
Chain e-mail on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
Barack Obama wants to "restore" the estate tax that George W. Bush "repealed."
Chain e-mail on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
John McCain will keep the estate tax at 0 percent, the same as it is now.
Chain e-mail on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
Obama "says he'll raise taxes on electricity."
John McCain on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
"Sen. McCain's economic plan gives nearly $4-billion in tax breaks to the oil companies but doesn't provide any tax relief to more than 100-million middle-class families."
Barack Obama on Friday, July 18th, 2008 in a statement e-mailed to reporters. >>Details
"If you have an investment for your child’s education or own a mutual fund or a stock in a retirement plan, (Obama) is going to raise your taxes."
John McCain on Monday, July 7th, 2008 in Denver, Co. >>Details
Barack Obama "cut taxes for working families."
Barack Obama on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
Obama's plan to raise the capital gains tax "hurts the middle class."
Republican National Committee on Sunday, May 18th, 2008 in a Web ad >>Details
Sen. Obama wants to "enact the single largest tax increase since the Second World War."
John McCain on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 in Washington, D.C. >>Details
Tax rates were significantly higher "in the '40s, the '50s, and the '60s."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 in South Bend, Ind. >>Details
Barack Obama "wants to nearly double the capital gains tax" increasing taxes on "mutual funds, 401(k)s" for "policemen, firemen, nurses."
John McCain on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 in in an interview on "This Week." >>Details
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise taxes on all income brackets.
Chain e-mail on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise capital gains taxes, which apply to home sales.
Chain e-mail on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
McCain's "plan for the economy is to extend George Bush’s tax cuts for billionaires and give a $100-billion additional corporate tax cut."
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 in Philadelphia. >>Details
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want to raise taxes on dividends, a move that would crash the stock market.
Chain e-mail on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 in a chain e-mail >>Details
McCain and Bush are millionaires who are "for tax cuts for millionaires."
Campaign to Defend America on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 in a television ad >>Details
RNC version of a Hillary Clinton valentine: "Roses are red, violets are blue, I’ll raise your taxes and there is nothing you can do."
Republican National Committee on Monday, February 11th, 2008 in an RNC Web site feature where you can send a GOP valentine from your favorite Democrat >>Details
John McCain "voted against the Bush tax cuts, both times."
Citizens United Political Victory Fund on Friday, February 1st, 2008 in in a TV ad >>Details
"(Romney's) record was that he raised taxes by $730-million."
John McCain on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 in a debate in Simi Valley, Calif. >>Details
"Now, I also support the Bush tax cuts. Sen. McCain voted against them originally. He now believes they should be made permanent. I'm glad he agrees they should be made permanent."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, January 24th, 2008 in Boca Raton. >>Details
"The average American is working through the month of May just to pay off the government."
Mike Huckabee on Friday, January 25th, 2008 in a debate in Boca Raton. >>Details
"When the Fair Tax becomes law, it will be like waving a magic wand releasing us from pain and unfairness."
Mike Huckabee on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 in >>Details
"And delivered more tax relief than the other Republicans combined."
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 in a TV ad >>Details
"(Ronald Reagan) raised taxes a billion dollars in his first year as governor of California."
Mike Huckabee on Thursday, January 10th, 2008 in a debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C. >>Details
"You've got a building in the Cayman Islands that supposedly houses 12,000 corporations. That's either the biggest building or the biggest tax scam on record."
Barack Obama on Saturday, January 5th, 2008 in a debate in Manchester, N.H. >>Details
"Mike Huckabee raised taxes on dog groomers!"
Spike the Romney Attack Dog on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 in a mailer from the Romney campaign to Iowans >>Details
"If you got rid of the income tax today you'd have about as much revenue as we had 10 years ago."
Ron Paul on Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 in a Meet the Press interview >>Details
"...some of those (tax increases) were either court-ordered, or they were voted on by the people and approved by the people for (such) things as roads."
Mike Huckabee on Sunday, December 30th, 2007 in a TV interview on NBC. >>Details
"Sen. McCain says it was not a mistake to vote against the Bush tax cuts ... but now says the tax cuts need to be made permanent."
Mitt Romney on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 in a press release >>Details
"McCain opposes repeal of the death tax."
Mitt Romney on Friday, December 28th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details
"As governor, Mike Huckabee supported higher income taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, grocery taxes, tobacco taxes, beer taxes, Internet taxes, nursing home bed taxes."
Club for Growth on Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 in a TV ad >>Details
"The estate tax, which came into being by Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and others ... is there for a real simple reason: In America, we've never liked the idea of massive inherited wealth."
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 in a town hall meeting in Derry, N.H. >>Details
"Five percent of Americans pay over half the income taxes in this country. Forty percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all."
Fred Thompson on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 in debate in Johnston, Iowa >>Details
"I believe in tax cuts. I believe in being a supply-sider. I cut the income tax I think it was 24 percent. We got 42 percent more revenues."
Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details
Huckabee "was one of the highest taxing governors that we had in this country and rivaling Bill Clinton in terms of the Cato ratings."
Fred Thompson on Monday, November 5th, 2007 in an interview on the Fox News Channel. >>Details
"As governor of Arkansas, I cut taxes and fees almost 100 times, saving the taxpayers almost $380-million. I left a surplus of nearly $850-million."
Mike Huckabee on Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 in a news release. >>Details
"Our tax code is so complicated it extracts $140 billion in extra tax preparation costs every year - one thousand dollars for every American family."
John McCain on Friday, September 28th, 2007 in a speech to the Hispanic Business Expo in Detroit. >>Details
“The Alternative Minimum Tax...was created by Congress in 1969 to affect 155 wealthy Americans. Because it was never indexed for inflation, those original 155 taxpayers has increased to affect about 3.5-million in 2006.”
Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 in a newspaper column >>Details
“The Alternative Minimum Tax was never intended to hit people in middle income, upper middle income. It was meant for people who are rich and evading taxes.”
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 in Philadelphia >>Details
"What happens is people like Warren Buffett — and he says this himself...pay 15 percent on the millions of dollars that they earn from wealth income... while their secretary is paying a higher rate on her work income. It's not right."
John Edwards on Thursday, September 20th, 2007 in Davenport, Iowa >>Details
Mitt Romney boasts that he is "proud to be the only major candidate for president to sign the tax pledge. The others have not."
Mitt Romney on Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 in a radio ad. >>Details
"I cut taxes 23 times when I was mayor of New York City."
Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 in a debate in Dearborn, Mich. >>Details
"The Republican governor who stood up and cut spending instead of raising taxes."
Mitt Romney on Friday, September 21st, 2007 in a television ad. >>Details
"Senator McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts. Now he's for them."
Mitt Romney on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 in Stratham, N.H. >>Details
“Democrats are kind of falling over each other seeing who can raise taxes faster. It looks like they’re going to raise taxes anywhere between 20 to 30 percent.”
Rudy Giuliani on Monday, July 30th, 2007 in a speech in Laconia, New Hampshire. >>Details
"I used tax cuts to help create over 80,000 jobs in New Mexico."
Bill Richardson on Thursday, May 10th, 2007 in a TV Ad. >>Details
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