Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.
You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.
Raising taxes won't create private sector jobs.
Raising taxes does nothing to allow the economy to recover.
Taxes are way too complicated, and people spend way too much time worrying about ways to get them lower.
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.
The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes.
I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy.
Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.
I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.
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