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Washington does not tax too little: it spends way too much.

We are the ones that are trying to get Washington spending under control so it can live within its means.

The American people are tired of the out-of-control spending, and they want Washington to get their act in order and stop spending money we don't have.

Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.

We need a smaller, leaner Washington. It won't happen if we raise taxes without any coinciding reform and serious slashing of spending.

The American people think the government in Washington is too big. That it spends too much. And - and that it's totally out of control. They want something done about it.

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

This is other people's money that Washington is appropriating and spending.

If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much.

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.