Political Quotes

“I respond to my colleague, the point I was making is that it is hard to describe this as a jobs bill because it does not create jobs. Each year, we extend these tax provisions. That is why we in Washington call it the tax extenders bill. This is not some new job creator. I agree with my colleague that to the extent we continue this in practice--though everybody who takes advantage of it knows it will be extended. So they have not made decisions based upon the prospect that we are not going to do it. They know we are going to do it retroactively, so it is not creating any new jobs. I support the extension. I think it is a good thing. But let's don't call it a jobs bill. By contrast, as I said, the health care legislation my colleague supports is a job killer. I pointed out just one provision: 115,000 jobs per year lost just because of the one provision taxing the so-called passive income, the dividends. And we are not even sure whether capital gains are taxed in that. Their estimate may even be low. The reality is, if we are really talking about saving or creating jobs, let's forget this massive health care legislation that now adds two more job-killing provisions to it: a 31-percent increase in the payroll tax and taxing for the first time passive income as a part of Medicare. That is a job killer.”