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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.

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

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

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

I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.

But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.

Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.