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Raising taxes won't create private sector jobs. -- Marco Rubio
You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes. -- John Hoeven
We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes. -- Brian Schweitzer
I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy. -- John Boehner
Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession. -- Mitch McConnell
Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government. -- Tim Murphy
The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending. -- Grover Norquist
Most Republicans have made it very clear they're not interested in raising taxes. They want to reform government. -- Grover Norquist
One of the most lethal mistakes a public official can make is raising taxes and not paying your own. -- Josh Mandel
You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget. -- Tom DeLay
When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses. -- Robert Kiyosaki
What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn't make sense. -- Kevin Yoder
I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again. -- Eric Cantor
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. -- Paul Ryan
I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem. -- William J. Clinton
In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster. -- Joe Biden
Raising taxes doesn't create jobs, and this is a common sense thing. Washington doesn't get it. They believe if they take more money and send it to Washington, D.C. somehow they create wealth. It doesn't work. -- Kevin Yoder
So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place. -- Paul Ryan
The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake. -- Mark Zandi
Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013. -- John Cornyn
This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs. -- Paul Ryan
In New Mexico, I inherited the largest structural deficit in state history, and our legislature is controlled by Democrats. We don't always agree, but we came together in a bipartisan manner and turned that deficit into a surplus. And we did it without raising taxes. -- Susana Martinez
Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity. -- Eugene Jarecki
When I became mayor of New York City, I had a $2.4 billion deficit. And everybody wanted me to raise taxes. I said, 'If I raise taxes, I'll drive people out of New York City, and then I'll be raising taxes again.' So what I did was I cut expenses by 15 percent. -- Rudy Giuliani
I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey. -- Chris Christie
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in. -- Mitch Daniels
We rule out raising taxes this year. -- Luis de Guindos
I have no intention of raising taxes -- William J. Clinton
I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period. -- Markwayne Mullin
Donald Trump would end up raising taxes on middle-class families. -- Hillary Clinton
Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea. -- Martha McSally
While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes. -- Jason Chaffetz
Here's a brave old reality, taxes don't go away; raising them never generates revenue, never ever ever. -- Neil Cavuto
Hillary Clinton is raising your taxes and I'm lowering your taxes. That in itself is a big difference. -- Donald Trump
Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth. -- Ronald Reagan
I'm from California, I know what's up with this. You keep raising people's taxes eventually they are going to say no. -- Sean Hannity
I believe Nebraskans appreciate the fiscal discipline I've brought to state government, balancing the budget without raising taxes and prioritizing education funding. -- Dave Heineman
Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs. -- Jim Jordan
What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy. -- Hillary Clinton
What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesnt make sense. -- Kevin Yoder
When they talk about raising your taxes, I think raise the taxes on some of these countries that are taking advantage of the United States. -- Donald Trump
Another one of President Barack Obama's nominees is having tax issues, which proves one thing: The Democrats like raising the taxes, but they hate paying them. -- Craig Ferguson
I'm for eliminating deductions and taking some of the money to buy down rates and put it on the debt. That's not raising taxes. That's solving a problem. -- Lindsey Graham
Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes. -- John Podhoretz
The centerpiece of Obamanomics - raising taxes on high earners and investors and lowering them on the middle class - is attacked by free-marketers for penalizing economic success and possibly further stalling economic growth. -- Nina Easton

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