There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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's really changed me. For the first time I'm in favor of the Bush tax cuts.
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.
Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.
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.
Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.
Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.
Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.