Orrin Hatch

There are no entitlement reforms being offered by this administration.

Are you telling me the deficit is going to go down? I do not believe that.

We want to help them. I have spent 36 years here trying to help people.

I wish you would work a little less hard on some of these crazy ideas that this administration has.

I actually think that this administration is putting us into real jeopardy.

I would just like to lift our workers and our economy by providing more opportunity.

You are going to have to prove that to me, because I do not believe it one bit.

But why does the President want to raise taxes in any way on small businesses with unemployment at 8.3 percent?

Could you explain whether you believe that those high tax rates are good for the economy and our international competitiveness?

In that op-ed, Drs. Furman and Goolsbee stated that then-Senator Obama's tax proposal would reduce revenues to less than 18.2 percent of GDP.

Why hammer millionaires and small business owners, who are the job creators, especially in rural America?

I see us as at 100 percent of GDP in national debt.

If there are no actions by the end of this year, ordinary income and dividends will face a top tax rate of 39.6 percent, and the capital gains rate will rise to 20 percent.

The Nation deserves a budget that responsibly addresses this debt crisis, yet last year the President delivered a budget that was unanimously rejected on the Senate floor.

The integrated tax rate on dividends would rise to 68.6 percent, and the rate on capital gains would rise to 56.7 percent.

Unfortunately, it similarly fails to address the Nation's glaring fiscal crisis, and it will probably never be brought to a vote.

I do not think anybody up here wants to cut entitlement programs if they can avoid it.

I have only been here 36 years, but I have gone through it over and over where a Democratic administration has come in and said, we just need more taxes and we will cut spending. We have given them the more taxes, and the spending has…

I have a lot of respect for you. I think you are a very bright man, and you have had one of the toughest jobs in history, and I acknowledge that.

I do not see any of that money going for deficit reduction.

A debt-to-GDP ratio above 100 percent is clearly unsustainable and puts us in the ranks of the many European countries currently in a severe debt crisis.

It is clear that his plan would only make our fiscal problems worse and harm our economy by imposing around $1.9 trillion of stifling tax hikes.

In the President's interpretation, 'Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's' becomes 'just give it all to Caesar.'

Persistent Federal deficits eat away at that seed corn and undermine long-term economic growth.

The balanced budget amendment would actually be bad for the American economy.