John Thune actually said...

"Are people going to pay more? The answer is 'yes.'"

"In the interest of transparency, though, some of these things, these waivers and delays, would you agree to submit..."

"If you are going to raise a certain amount of revenue and it is going to be paid for by a certain number of people, if that pool shrinks, the people who are left in the pool are going to pay more."

"There is no more important domestic policy issue, in my view, than dealing with the debt and deficit challenge that we are facing."