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A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work.

Tax credits are designed to help people who work hard but who, through no fault of their own, don't earn enough to keep their families out of poverty.

The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes.

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money.

Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.

You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.