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Candidates' Positions and Views |
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for:
United States Senator, Pennsylvania |
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April 24, 2012 Pennsylvania Democratic Primary |
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Candidates positions and views on other Issues where information is available: |
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The report below lists the candidate responses to Taxes issue questions. The responses were provided by Joseph John Vodvarka and Bob Casey, Jr. or were obtained from their websites. The candidates select the issues and questions for which they want to provide a response. The first link is a report of all the issues and questions made available to the candidates. Many issues and questions had no responses - links are only provided where we have information. If there are many candidates for this office, you may have to scroll down to compare all responses. |
| Taxes |
Joseph John Vodvarka - D
Website
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Bob Casey, Jr. - D
Website
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| Taxes, a General Statement |
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TAX CUTS FOR WORKING FAMILIES, NOT MULTIMILLIONAIRES
Bob Casey supports targeted tax cuts for our middle class and working families. These are the kind of tax cuts that will give people more incentive to work, boost consumer spending, and pump up the economy.
In contrast, according to non-partisan and even some Republican economic analyses, the massive Bush tax cuts for the upper crust of American society have not caused the "trickle-down" economic growth that supply-side economic salesmen promised. Yet in the face of record budget deficits and two expensive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, George Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress are determined to keep on trying to sell this old snake-oil.
A vote for Bob Casey is a vote for smart tax policy that will help our nation grow rather than bankrupt the federal budget and our future.
CORPORATE WELFARE
Special corporate interests are increasingly using Washington lobbyists to make money for them through legislation rather than earning it the old-fashioned way in the marketplace. While working families and most businesses are playing by the rules, the politically connected few are bending the rules to grab government subsidies and sheltering themselves from paying their fair share of tax dollars.
Bob Casey knows that these kind of corrupt practices are a recipe for budgetary and economic disaster in the long run. As Pennsylvania's Senator, he will join the growing bipartisan effort to stop this fiscal and economic insanity in Washington.
Republican Senator John McCain has estimated that more than 100 questionable corporate welfare loopholes existed at a cost to U.S. taxpayers of $65 billion a year. As Senator McCain declared, "Terminating even some of these programs could save taxpayers tens of billions of dollars each year - money that could be used to cut taxes for lower-income Americans, bolster Social Security, pay down the national debt, and strengthen our military forces. These programs prov [Response was truncated to maximum response length of 2000 characters.]
Source: Candidate Website (10/07/2006) |
| Reforming and Simplifying Federal Taxes |
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Bob Casey supports targeted tax cuts for our middle class and working families. These are the kind of tax cuts that will give people more incentive to work, boost consumer spending, and pump up the economy.
In contrast, according to non-partisan and even some Republican economic analyses, the massive Bush tax cuts for the upper crust of American society have not caused the "trickle-down" economic growth that supply-side economic salesmen promised. Yet in the face of record budget deficits and two expensive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, George Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress are determined to keep on trying to sell this old snake-oil.
A vote for Bob Casey is a vote for smart tax policy that will help our nation grow rather than bankrupt the federal budget and our future.
Source: Candidate Website (10/07/2006) |
| Corporate Tax Loopholes |
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Special corporate interests are increasingly using Washington lobbyists to make money for them through legislation rather than earning it the old-fashioned way in the marketplace. While working families and most businesses are playing by the rules, the politically connected few are bending the rules to grab government subsidies and sheltering themselves from paying their fair share of tax dollars.
Bob Casey knows that these kind of corrupt practices are a recipe for budgetary and economic disaster in the long run. As Pennsylvania's Senator, he will join the growing bipartisan effort to stop this fiscal and economic insanity in Washington.
Republican Senator John McCain has estimated that more than 100 questionable corporate welfare loopholes existed at a cost to U.S. taxpayers of $65 billion a year. As Senator McCain declared, "Terminating even some of these programs could save taxpayers tens of billions of dollars each year - money that could be used to cut taxes for lower-income Americans, bolster Social Security, pay down the national debt, and strengthen our military forces. These programs provide special benefits and advantages to specific companies or industries at the expense of hardworking taxpayers."
Bob Casey will proudly support legislation previously introduced by Senator McCain and such prominent Democrats as former House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt to form a permanent Corporate Subsidy Reform Commission.
The legislation creates an independent bipartisan commission to identify during each budget cycle a list of specific corporate welfare subsidies for elimination. Congress would have to vote on the whole package with limited ability to amend and within a specifically limited timeframe. Legislators would not be able to exempt their favorite special interests. They instead would have to vote for or against the whole package containing billions of dollars in savings to taxpayers. The respected Progressive Policy Institute projected that a [Response was truncated to maximum response length of 2000 characters.]
Source: Candidate Website (10/07/2006) |
| These are available issue topics for which there were no responses. |
| Tax Code |
| Income Tax Rates |
| Taxing the the Wealthiest 1% |
| Corporate Income Taxes |
| Taxes on Interest, Dividends, and Capital Gains |
| Estate Taxes (Death / Birth Tax) |
| Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) |
| Extending the Bush Tax Cuts |
| Value-Added Tax |
| Tax Proposals |
| Taxes Policy |
| National Sales Tax |
| Flat Tax |
| Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) |
| Marriage Penalty |
| Income Tax on Seniors |
| Tax Rates on Private Equity Funds |
| 2001 Tax Cuts |
| Tax Credits for College |
| Tax Credits for Health Care |
| Child Tax Credit |
| Tax-Free Savings Accounts |
| Business Tax Credits |
| R&D Tax Credit |
| Offshore Tax Havens |
| Oil Company Tax Breaks |
| Property Taxes |
| Internal Revenu Service (IRS) |