You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
Simply looking at the status quo and suggesting that the tax code is sacrosanct and can never change, and that decisions made in the '80s and '90s can never change, is absurd.
We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.
Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.
Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.
Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.
Our current tax system is broken.
Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.
Read my lips: no new taxes.