"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."

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"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."

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"If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much."

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"We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones."

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"Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles."

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"He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer."

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"If we didn't propose these reforms, we would not have proposed a budget that got the debt under control."

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