Mitch McConnell Quotes

Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

We have no interest in raising taxes.

I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.

I have continuously said that, at the very minimum, the Bush tax cuts for income under $250,000 should be extended.

Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

My position has been consistent that middle class families should not pay more taxes. That hasn't changed.

Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.

I'm not going to raise taxes.

We need to restore the Bush tax cuts or actually make them permanent.

Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.

Having won re-election convincingly and against the economic odds, President Obama quickly made good on his promise of maintaining taxes as they are for the middle class while raising them on the wealthiest Americans.

Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

You don't get an economy growing by raising taxes.

We had 90 percent taxes before in America. All right? Didn't work.