Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tax Reform : Jul 18, 2023
Exempt conversion of bitcoin from capital gains taxes

"The benefits include facilitating innovation and spurring investment, ensuring citizen privacy, incentivizing ventures to grow their business and tech jobs in the United States," he added. "Non-taxable events are unreportable and that means it will be more difficult for governments to weaponize currency against free speech, which is one of my principal objectives."

Mike Pence on Tax Reform : Sep 22, 2020
Capital gains tax cut increases revenue & creates jobs

Pence said, "To end the uncertainty that is stifling investment, innovation and growth, we must preserve current tax rates and promote permanent tax reform. Congress must permanently extend the 2001 and 2003 tax rates to ensure no American faces a tax hike on January 1st, and I have introduced a bill with Sen. Jim DeMint to do just that. Most Americans know that higher taxes won't get anybody hired. Raising taxes on job creators won't create jobs." [Detroit Economic Club, 11/29/10]

Joe Biden on Budget & Economy : Feb 19, 2020
Ordinary people are getting killed by this economy

Joe Biden on Corporations : Oct 15, 2019
Double the capital gains tax

Joe Biden on Corporations : Oct 24, 2017
1972 Senate race: Opposed capital gains tax cut

So, Val [Biden's sister campaign manager] arranged a meeting with some fat-cat investment counselors. They were ready to give. In a private meeting, they asked Biden what he thought about lowering the capital gains rate. "I knew the answer I thought they wanted to hear," Biden remembered. "All I had to say was that I'd consider it. And I couldn't say it--I just couldn't lie to their faces." He told them he wasn't for changing capital gains.

The meeting ended. On the way home, Brother Jimmy told him. "Joe, I sure in hell hope you feel that strongly about capital gains because you just lost the election." Biden didn't look back. Instead, he took out a second mortgage on his home. The ads stayed up.

Bernie Sanders on Tax Reform : Apr 30, 2015
Double the capital gains tax for the wealthiest 2%

Jill Stein on Tax Reform : Dec 21, 2011
Incomes rise for wealthiest 1% but their taxes have fallen

A: It's outrageous that the wealth of the top 1/10 of 1% has risen in the past decade while their taxes are cut via capital gains. No one is even talking, Democrat or Republican, about restoring the capital gains tax. The solutions even by progressive Democrats barely begin to scrape the surface of the problem.

Marco Rubio on Corporations : Mar 28, 2010
Work across the aisle to make America more business-friendly

RUBIO: Well, partisan gridlock is not something I'm in favor of. But the problem is it depends on what you're standing for. I'd be more than happy to work across the aisle to do things like lower the capital gains tax, lower the corporate tax, flatten the tax rate, lower all of these other taxes that make America increasingly an unfriendly place to do business. And if the Obama administration tomorrow announces that that's their agenda, or the leadership in Congress does, I'll be thrilled to work with them. But what they're attempting to do is to fundamentally redefine the role of government in America, and we can't cooperate with that, because once we cross a certain point, we can't turn back.

Mike Huckabee on Tax Reform : Aug 5, 2007
Tax system penalizes productivity; needs complete overhaul

A: I absolutely support the FairTax. And part of the reason is, the current system is one that penalizes productivity. If we could have the FairTax, you take $10 trillion parked offshore, bring it home, you rebuild the "Made in America" brand, you free up people to earn money, to work, you don't penalize them for taking a second job, you don't penalize them for investing, you don't penalize them for savings.

Today, our tax system doesn't need a tap of the hammer, a twist of the screwdriver, it needs a complete overhaul. And what the FairTax does, it ends the underground economy. No more illegals, no more gamblers, prostitutes, pimps and dope dealers will be able to escape the tax code. It's the single great thing that will help this country [achieve a] revitalized economy.

Mike Huckabee on Tax Reform : Jan 4, 2007
Eliminated AR marriage penalty & capital gains on home sales

During my tenure as governor, we:
• Eliminated the income tax for families below the poverty line.
• Increased the standard deductions.
• Eliminated the marriage penalty.
• Eliminated bracket creep by indexing the income taxes to inflation, thereby preventing taxpayers from moving into a higher bracket when their paychecks increase due to inflations.
• Doubled the child care tax credit.
• Eliminated capital gains tax on the sale of a home.
• Passed the first broad-based tax cut in the state's history.
• Signed a property taxpayer's bill of rights establishing a uniform notice and due process procedure allowing taxpayers to appeal valuation and assessments.
• Provided an income tax credit for companies that provide or reimburse for training and education programs for employees.
• Cut the capital gains tax for individuals and business to encourage investment.