Blake Moore: “I do not want to raise taxes. We do not want to raise taxes. What we want to do is get our budget back in balance and…”

“I do not want to raise taxes. We do not want to raise taxes. What we want to do is get our budget back in balance and eliminate the death tax on the future of our children and grandchildren. My friend from Texas, across the aisle, talks about making some hard decisions. I would challenge him to pass this motion to instruct tonight and let us sit down together, Republicans and Democrats, and put aside all talk about raising taxes and work on identifying where there is waste, fraud and abuse in our budget and eliminating that. We can do that. Again, I am more than willing to. This motion intends to extend the marriage penalty relief, the child tax credit, extend the 10 percent tax credit and AMT relief. All of those are tax cuts that we want to extend. Not raise taxes, cut taxes. But we need to work together, Mr. Speaker, to find ways that we can eliminate this horrible mortgage, this horrible debt we are putting on the future of our children and grandchildren.”