Political Quotes

“tonight we are having a debate about whether we should amend the Constitution to make it more difficult to raise taxes. If you look back over the last 15 years, over the last 30 years, take that amount of time, it has become clear that whenever Congress got into a bind, they just raised taxes. The fact is many of us believe that it ought to be more difficult to raise taxes and many of us believe that if we are going to balance the budget, we ought to do it by reducing spending and controlling spending and not by increasing taxes. A number of States already have tax limitation language in their Constitutions, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. They all have requirements to balance their State budgets. And so you can see that these States have a tax limitation amendment in their Constitution. They also have a requirement to balance their budgets, and they are doing just fine, and this Congress can do the same thing. The fact is it has been too easy to raise taxes in this Congress. What we are trying to do is to tell the American people, ``We're on your side, we're going to make it tougher.''”