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Tax increases slow economic growth. Why would you raise taxes? We need to reform spending, the tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities can never be funded by tax increases, that can only be fixed by reducing spending.

Let's be clear: raising taxes during a very slow recovery is likely to lead to another recession, and it will do absolutely nothing to balance the budget.

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

A temporary reduction in tax rates on individual incomes can be a powerful weapon against recession.

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the priority must be to avoid tax increases. They would disrupt consumption, employment and investment.