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Contrary to the myth that Mr. Bush cut taxes only for the wealthy, the 2001 tax cut reduced taxes for every income-tax payer in the country.

There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.

Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade.

I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts.

Apparently there are some Democratic leaders in the Senate that are running for office who now believe in tax cuts.

The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't think that uncertainty over what the tax rate will be for someone that makes a million dollars a year has that big an impact on the economic growth rate in the country.

The polls are with us on this. They say the American people, more than anything, want to see spending cuts rather than tax increases.

Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.