Richard Neal Quotes

• It is day after day in this institution, borrow money, run up the debt, run up the deficits and then with a straight face say, we are going to repeal a tax that affects 1 percent of the American people, just 1 percent of the American people.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Day, After

• Fundamentally, I believe that the U.S. can improve its international standing and its national security by expanding trade and strengthening its relationships with moderate Muslim countries.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Security, National

• But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in America

  Tags in Together, Working

• Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, American, Getting

• It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Talk, Difficult, Easy

• Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in America

  Tags in Wealth, Based

• Let me say at the outset that I do not reflexively oppose international trade.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trade, Oppose

• More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Care, Before, Child

• Many injuries and deaths can be prevented through an understanding of the dangers of power lines, electrical appliances, extension cords, and lightning.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Through, Lighting

• President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crisis, Social, President

• People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Important, Come

• Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Over, American, Tax

• The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Line, Works, Defense

• The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code’s complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Today, Ever, Together

• The number of electrical injuries cared for in hospitals in the US is estimated at as many as 50,000; the cost of these injuries on the US economy is estimated at over one billion dollars per year.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Over, Year

• The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Tax, Avoid

• The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rich, Republican, Party

• The tax relief that this Congress has given now in terms of four tax cuts has overwhelmingly gone to the people at the very top of the income scale in America.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in America

  Tags in Congress, Gone

• Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Trade, Workers

• Under the Bush plan, Social Security gets weaker, not stronger.

  Richard Neal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Social, Plan, Security

Richard Neal (24)

Birth:	14th February, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Teacher

About

Richard Edmund Neal is the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district, serving since 1989. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He is a former city councilor and mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts.

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