Political Quotes

“Certainly as a medical doctor you have been looking very closely over the last year at one of a whole series of these taxes. These things effectively work as taxes. Let's just take, if you will, health care out of the equation, whether people are healthy or get good health coverage. The point of the matter is that this cap-and-tax is a huge tax that the House passed on the use of energy, which affects anybody who uses energy. You don't have to be very well-to-do to have a pickup truck and have to drive a long way to a job, and you spend a lot of money in gas or some type of energy. So this is a big tax on energy. This is a big tax on health care. There is going to be a huge, huge amount of taxes. They tried very hard to make it look like this is a trillion-dollar increase in taxes, and the numbers continue to come out that it's a lot more than that. So there's another tax. And then you have got the death tax, as you mentioned; you have got the capital gains dividend tax, which is one of the main things that helped get the economy going before.”