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The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

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.

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

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.

Taxes are way too complicated, and people spend way too much time worrying about ways to get them lower.

We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not.

If we want to increase revenue, we need more taxpayers. The way to do that is employ more people.

So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.

Government is just spending too much money.