298 days to go

"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature."
     —Los Angeles, CA; February 23, 2000

304 days to go

"I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth."
     —Nashua, NH; as quoted by Gail Collins in The New York Times; February 1, 2000

I'm all for knockin' shit down...

305 days to go

"The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the death tax, so that people who build up assets are able to transfer them from one generation to the next, regardless of a person's race."
     —Washington, D.C.; April 5, 2001

Rates, not race.

309 days to go

"See, without the tax relief package, there would have been a deficit, but there wouldn't have been the commiserate—not 'commiserate'—the kick to our economy that occurred as a result of the tax relief."
     —Washington, D.C.; December 15, 2003

333 days to go

"We need to counter the shock wave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates."
     —Washington, D.C.; October 4, 2001

356 days to go

"A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness."
     —Appearing on The Edge with Paula Zahn; September 18, 2000

I don't know about you, but I'm going to be spending my upcoming tax rebate on paying my taxes--not buying more crap I don't need.