We worked with Republicans and Democrats to cut middle-class taxes, to cut taxes for small businesses.
The Governor says that he is not going to allow the top 5 percent -- I believe is what he said -- to have a tax cut, that it will all even out, that what he wants to do is give that tax cut to the middle class.
Four years ago, I promised to cut middle-class taxes for families and small businesses -- and we have.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event -- Richmond VA
Now, what he says is he's going to make sure that this doesn't add to the deficit and he's going to cut middle-class taxes.
One of Clinton's first acts as President was to abandon his own promise to cut middle-class taxes so he could embrace the core of the Perot agenda.
And as I think I noted the other day, if only Senate Republicans who say they will vote against this express as much passion about the need to cut taxes for the middle class as they express to protect tax cuts and protect the incomes of millionaires and billionaires, we might be able to get this done without much hullabaloo.
Another was to give the middle class a tax cut to help it weather this terrible recession.
So Congress has a very simple choice next week: Do you want to cut taxes for the middle class and those who are trying to get into the middle class?
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on Tax Cuts for the Middle Class
House Democrats agreed to extend the middle class tax cut that was included in the recently-passed economic stimulus plan, but failed to specify how the cut would be paid for after 2010.
Four years ago I promised to cut taxes for middle-class families, and I kept that promise.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President and Vice President in Dayton, OH
Four years ago, I came into office -- I promised to cut taxes for middle-class families.
The vegetables, from Ghana, had been cut open to conceal the Class A drugs and glued back together.
Back in 2008, I promised to cut taxes for middle-class families.
In January's election, new politicians such as Yair Lapid, finance minister, rose to power on promises to help the middle class at a time when Israel needs to cut spending and raise taxes to close a growing budget deficit.
And the credits add up to the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks about Health Reform in Iowa City
Clinton also shelved his campaign commitment to deliver a middle class tax cut upon learning the size of the deficit.
Certainly the field is open for some immediate form of the president-elect's middle-class tax cut to become part of a stimulus package.
Is the President going to ask Democrats to bring a vote to the floor on Wednesday to cut taxes only for the middle class, ahead of November elections?
Absolutely a fact -- A. B, it is absolutely a fact that this President does not believe Congress should leave on vacation until it has extended the tax cut to working and middle-class Americans that they received this year.
Republicans also said they wouldn't do anything to help the economy and the middle class unless spending was cut from the very poor and elderly: proposing cuts to food stamps and Medicare.
It was absolutely the right thing to do to put forward a Recovery Act that cut taxes for middle-class folks so they had more money in their pocket to get through the recession.
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And that will add up to the largest middle-class tax cut for health care in history.
Obama brushed off the charge Sunday, saying he just wants to give the middle class a tax cut.
Rather than cut programs to the bone or increase class sizes, several small districts have recently consolidated with bigger districts.
You'll remember I called on Congress to pass this middle-class tax cut back in September as part of my broader jobs plan.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on the Payroll Tax Cut Extension
Your voices convinced Congress to extend this middle-class tax cut before.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks on an Economy Built to Last in Iowa
And then cut middle-class families loose to fend for themselves.
He says the church inspired wonder because its leaders were able to form a community that cut across the rigid class and ethnic divisions that characterized the ancient Roman world.
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