Don Nickles: “I will respond, since this is tax day, that the tax increase that passed last year was a tax on everybody, including my…”

“I will respond, since this is tax day, that the tax increase that passed last year was a tax on everybody, including my now 18-year-old daughter. She drives an automobile, and gasoline taxes went up for everybody. So anybody who drives a car had a tax increase. Some individuals had personal income tax increases, and corporate taxes went up. So there were very significant tax increases. I might well mention that a strong majority of Americans, at least those driving automobiles, had a tax increase. The majority leader said there was the largest deficit reduction in history and said maybe not if you look at the present value of dollars. CBO says it is not the largest deficit reduction package in history. I want to mention one other thing, and that is the fact of using figures. We continued to hear today that it had more spending cuts than tax increases. I think that statement is totally false.”