On the Issues: Taxes

December 11, 2007 01:10 pm

— Joe Biden (D)
Repeal tax cuts for wealthiest 1 percent; extend tax breaks for college tuition; fix alternative minimum tax.

Hillary Clinton (D)
“Will offer tax credits for middle-class families and small business to help them afford health care; work for a fairer tax code and balance the budget."

Chris Dodd (D)
"As president, I would work to grow our economy while making taxes fair and providing relief to middle-class families."

John Edwards (D)
"I'll reverse regressive tax cuts that shifted the burden onto middle-class workers by cutting taxes for middle-class families and repealing Bush's tax cuts for families over $200,000."

Rudy Giuliani (R)
"Will lower taxes and increase government revenues."

Mike Gravel (D)
"Will abolish IRS; federal income tax and the tax code; institute fair green (sales) tax with rebates on necessities; make U.S. foreign investment haven, creating jobs."

Mike Huckabee (R)
Will eliminate all federal income and payroll taxes | personal. corporate, gift, estate, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security. Medicare, self-employment.

Duncan Hunter (R)
Will reform tax code to make it simpler and fairer; eliminate marriage tax; change alternative minimum tax so fewer pay.

Dennis Kucinich (D)
Double tax refunds and credits for Americans earning $80,000 and lower by shifting burden to those who can afford to pay.

Sen. John McCain (R)
Tax cuts work best when accompanied by lower spending. Will work for intelligently formulated tax cuts, tax reform, lower spending.

Barack Obama (D)
"Will cut taxes up to $1,000 for working families, eliminate taxes for seniors making under $50,000 and simplify tax forms.”

Ron Paul (R)
"Working Americans like lower taxes. So do I. Lower taxes benefit all of us, creating jobs and allowing us to make more decisions for ourselves about our lives."

Bill Richardson (D)
End Alternative Minimum Tax and death tax for middle class; end Bush tax cuts for wealthiest; slash corporate welfare.

Mitt Romney (R)
"I'll make Bush tax cuts permanent; end the death tax; end middle-class tax rate on interest, dividends and capital gains."

Tom Tancredo (R)
"The current income tax system is complex and unfair, and should be replaced by a national sales tax, such as proposed by the Fair Tax."

Fred Thompson (R)
Abolish death tax and Alternative Minimum Tax; cut corporate income tax from 33 to 27 percent; start voluntary flat tax.