Jeff Sessions actually said...

the sequester was part of the Budget Control Act. That is what we did.

obviously you suggest the choice of reducing deficit between cutting spending and raising taxes, the better choice is to reduce spending.

I would suggest that this gives further credence to the argument that we have a difficult--we are not going to get very far, getting our way...

Rather than increasing tax rates, we should take a lesson from the tax rate reductions of the 1920s, 1960s, and 1980s.