Dick Gephardt
Dick Gephardt
Richard Andrew "Dick" Gephardtis an American politician who served as a United States Representative from Missouri from 1977 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he was House Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995 and Minority Leader from 1995 to 2003. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 1988 and 2004. Gephardt was mentioned as a possible vice presidential nominee in 1988, 1992, 2000, 2004, and 2008...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 January 1941
CountryUnited States of America
I voted for the Reagan tax cut (in 1981). It was a mistake, ... We have to learn from history. It was a worthy experiment, but it was a mistake and ... we don't want to make it again.
We in the Democratic Party feel strongly that the people in the middle, the people stuck on the bottom, are the people we need to be giving the majority of this tax cut.
We think a 10 percent across-the-board cut assigns about 80 percent of the benefits to the top 20 percent of taxpayers. We'd much rather prefer targeted tax cuts that really go to people who need that tax cut for a particular reason,
to figure out how we're going to help businesses create jobs, reduce the deficit, simplify the tax code and grow our economy.
Since Republicans refuse to put school modernization in the tax bill, we demand that it be included in the Labor-HHS bill. The president is with us on this, and we're not going home until our children and teachers get the help that they need,
We need to combine real simple tax reform along with reforming the IRS.
We can talk about targeted tax cuts like we've been talking about, the president's been talking about. Maybe that can be married up with a proposal to raise the minimum wage.
My healthcare plan puts more money into average families' pockets than the Bush tax cuts... He's got a lousy tax cut. It's only good for the super wealthy. I've got a tax cut that will help ordinary people.
They choose the tax cuts over extending the solvency of Social Security and Medicare,
A lot of the economy is psychological perception, ... And we have created the perception this bill was going to happen. If we now withdraw it because we can't get a huge tax break for corporate America in it, we're going to really cause problems in this economy.
This congress has spent most of the year debating tax cuts for the wealthiest that left no money for debt reduction, basic appropriations, or anything else,
This administration has no plan, no vision, no answer beyond simplistic knee-jerk tax cuts for the wealthiest among us.
So this is what the lobbyists and other wealthy individuals got for their money. They get their overly generous share of the tax bill.
It is only their insistence on tax cuts for the wealthy, to be funded by Medicare cuts or changes in the CPI, that we don't have a budget,