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You don't grow the economy by growing government.

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

You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy.

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.

You don't raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.

Raising taxes does nothing to allow the economy to recover.

I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners, is a recipe for economic growth.

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

It was an absurd theory that by cutting taxes you would increase government revenues, because the growth of the economy would create an overflow of taxes that would fall into the government coffers.