Dan Coats: “last night President Obama had the opportunity to present to the American people a plan envisioned for how he plans to…”

“last night President Obama had the opportunity to present to the American people a plan envisioned for how he plans to strengthen the state of our Union. While I am pleased he finally turned his focus back to the ongoing jobs crisis in our country, I was left feeling disappointed and frustrated that the President continued to call for higher taxes to pay for more and more government spending. I don't believe the President acknowledges--or at least he didn't last evening--the seriousness of our debt and fiscal crisis. We are nearly $16.5 trillion in debt, and $6 trillion of that debt is from the President's spending over the last 4 years--and he now has 4 more years to go. Yet rather than tell the American people specifically how he will reduce this unsustainable debt, he once again pulled out the same tired playbook and made it clear his basic fiscal plan is ever higher taxes. It's almost an obsession with tax hikes and telling the American people: You are just not taxed enough, when we are practically taxed to death. When you add not just the Federal but the State and the local and the sales and the excise and gasoline and the entertainment and all the other taxes that American people pay in their daily lives, it cuts into their paycheck in a very significant way each week. The real question is, Is the solution to our problems more taxes on the American people? Mr. President, you got your taxes in the fiscal cliff debate.…”