Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

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

Raising taxes does nothing to allow the economy to recover.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.

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.