13th District Candidates on Extending Bush Era Tax Cuts
By: Blake Long
Updated: October 11, 2012
WMBD 31 is your Local Election Headquarters. As next month's election
nears, we're finding out where local candidates stand on the issues. In
the 13th district Congressional race Republican Rodney Davis is facing Democrat David Gill. Since congress is set to vote on extending the bush era tax cut rates, we're asking the candidates if the measure should be extended.
David Gill:
"I think that we should have the millionaires and billionaires in this country start paying their fair share. When I travel this district, 14 counties wide, all of the people that I encounter say it's about time for the millionaires and billionaires in America to start paying their fair share. I don't think that we should raise taxes on anybody else in this country, but I think that millionaires and billionaires are long overdue to begin paying their fair share again. It's time to have corporations pay their fair share as well."
Rodney Davis:
"Absolutely. I think all the current tax rates should be extended permanently. We hear a lot of politicians talk about creating jobs, well I'm one of those politicians that doesn't believe that government creates private sector jobs. And what need right now to turn our economy around is to give business owners certainty and once they have that certainty of what their tax bill is going to look like at the end of this year, then I think they're going to be able to invest in people and create jobs. Also, what most Americans don't realize is if we don't, if republicans and democrats don't do something to extend the current tax rates, every single American household will experience the largest income tax increase in American history come December 31st of this year."
David Gill:
"I think that we should have the millionaires and billionaires in this country start paying their fair share. When I travel this district, 14 counties wide, all of the people that I encounter say it's about time for the millionaires and billionaires in America to start paying their fair share. I don't think that we should raise taxes on anybody else in this country, but I think that millionaires and billionaires are long overdue to begin paying their fair share again. It's time to have corporations pay their fair share as well."
Rodney Davis:
"Absolutely. I think all the current tax rates should be extended permanently. We hear a lot of politicians talk about creating jobs, well I'm one of those politicians that doesn't believe that government creates private sector jobs. And what need right now to turn our economy around is to give business owners certainty and once they have that certainty of what their tax bill is going to look like at the end of this year, then I think they're going to be able to invest in people and create jobs. Also, what most Americans don't realize is if we don't, if republicans and democrats don't do something to extend the current tax rates, every single American household will experience the largest income tax increase in American history come December 31st of this year."
