Americans for Tax Reform notes that Tom Daschle has earned a lifetime 7 percent rating from the group for his voting record over the years, which includes the following:
- In 2004, Daschle voted against keeping the Internet free of all sales taxes.
- In 2003, Daschle voted against reducing the capital gains and dividend rates to 15%.
- In 2003, Daschle voted against permanently killing the Death Tax.
- In 2002, Daschle voted against permanently killing the Death Tax.
- In 2001, Daschle voted against cutting income tax rates for all taxpayers, ending the marriage penalty, doubling the child tax credit, and killing the Death Tax.
- In 2000, Daschle voted against ending the marriage penalty, killing the Death Tax, and a gas tax cut for consumers.
- In 1999, Daschle voted against expanding Medical Savings Accounts despite endorsing the concept less than a decade earlier.
- In 1999, Daschle voted against an across-the-board 10% income tax cut, a capital gains tax cut, and killing the Death Tax.
- In 1998, Daschle voted against ending the marriage penalty and against tax-free education savings accounts for children.
- In 1997, Daschle voted against the creation of the Roth IRA.
- In 1995, Daschle voted against a constitutional amendment that would have required a supermajority to raise taxes.
- In 1993, Daschle voted for the Clinton income tax increase.
ATR President Grover Norquist quips, “Tom Daschle, like Leona Helmsley, believes only ‘the little people’ should pay taxes.”
