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I will veto any tax increase. -- Susana Martinez
I have never voted for a tax increase. -- Marco Rubio
Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase. -- Grover Norquist
If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase. -- Pat Toomey
A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con. -- Tony Abbott
If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase. -- Matt Blunt
Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase. -- Dick Morris
I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates. -- Adam Hasner
Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant. -- Christina Romer
In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated. -- Newt Gingrich
During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase. -- Bob Beauprez
I'm a conservative. I believe in the idea of freedom and liberty, but more importantly, look at my voting background. I voted against bailing out Wall Street. I voted against, never voted for, a tax increase. -- Kevin McCarthy
Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut they didn't really like and didn't see a tax increase they didn't hate and do everything they could to block. -- Peter George Peterson
The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life. -- Barney Frank
Tea Partiers hate government more than they hate the national debt. They refuse to reduce that debt with tax increases, even with tax increases on the wealthy, because a tax increase doesn't reduce the size of government. -- Robert Reich
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. -- Barack Obama
The move to tax Internet sales, clothed as a 'fairness' issue, is the typical 'wolf-in-sheep's-clothing' ploy so often used by governments unwilling to cut expenditures to match revenues. It matters not whether its proponents have a 'D' or an 'R' after their name. It is a tax increase in either case. -- Bob Barr
Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion, however, is that the primary driver of the short-term deficit is not tax cuts but the lack of any meaningful economic growth over the last half decade. -- Bob Beauprez
There are several reasons to oppose tax increases. First, every dollar of tax increase is a dollar you didn't get in spending restraint. Two, if you walk into the Democrats' Andrews-Air-Force-Base, Lucy-with-the-Football trick for the third time in a row - they don't have have a saying for being fooled three times! -- Grover Norquist
But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime. -- Barack Obama
If you have to change the law to get more money, that's a tax increase, and Americans for Tax Reform supports all efforts of tax reform, getting rid of deductions or credits, or something that's misclassified, as long as you at the same time reduce rates so that it's not a hidden tax. -- Grover Norquist
I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job. -- Marco Rubio
Improved AR roads, via voter-approved tax increase. -- Mike Huckabee
We have no plans to increase tax at all. -- Tony Blair
If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed. -- Robert Strauss
If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed. -- Robert Strauss
There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever. -- Tony Abbott
We will have a massive, massive tax increase under Hillary Clinton's plan. -- Donald Trump
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? -- Peg Bracken
The payroll tax increase was destructive financially, it took what was a close call and made it a bad call, -- Mike McGavick
We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history. -- Hank Williams, Jr.
Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant! -- Charles Krauthammer
My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class. -- Thomas Piketty
It was absolutely critical to renew the Bush tax cuts. Letting them expire would result in a massive tax increase that would retard economic growth. -- Mitt Romney
If gambling were banned, those social costs would drop, tax revenues from consumer goods would increase, and money would be pumped into the productive economic sector -- John Warren Kindt
When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction! -- Kent Conrad
Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year. -- William Weld
... giving tax incentives for more labor ownership of company stock will do more to create jobs and increase productivity than all the "emergency full employment" bills proposed. -- Jack Kemp
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But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits. -- David Ricardo

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