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Talking Points on the Budget

Talking Points on the Budget

MARCH 4, 2009

 

  • The American people are hurting.
  • Congress was right to take action to get this economy moving, but higher taxes and massive federal spending is not the cure for what ails this economy.
  • The American people know we cannot tax and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.
  • Raising taxes during a recession - on almost every American - is a prescription for economic decline.
  • More than half of the Americans paying higher rates under the Democrat plan are small business owners filing as individuals.
  • Raising taxes on small businesses - where a majority of Americans go to work every day - will not put American families back to work.
  • Raising utility rates on every household in America will place an undue burden on families struggling to make ends meet.
  • Cutting deductions for charitable giving will harm higher education, scientific research and religious organizations struggling to stay afloat.
  • Democrats are on the side of more government and more taxes.
  • House Republicans are on the side of the American people.