John Fleming Quotes

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

I personally don't believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I'll pay more, but it won't solve the problem.

The only way to eliminate the deficit in the long run is through growth.

In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster.

The U.S. have printed money; they intend to tax the rich in order to avoid the fiscal cliff. These are things that sees anyone who dares to propose them in Greece and Europe labeled an extremist, when at the same time, it's what Obama does.

The cozy world we were told would go on forever, where full employment would be guaranteed by a stroke of the Chancellor’s pen, cutting taxes, deficit spending—that cozy world is gone.

While deficits are often inflationary and always pernicious, curing them by raising taxes is equivalent to curing an illness by shooting the patient.

Raising taxes does nothing to allow the economy to recover.

The economy is terrible it's been terrible for years now, and the reason it's bad is not because of a debt-ceiling vote. The reason it's bad is because we have people who believe that by making government bigger by keeping people on unemployment checks and on welfare we're going to dig us out of this mess.

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.

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.

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes.

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

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

You know, the Democrats want to balance the budget by raising spending and raising taxes. The Soviet Union had a balanced budget.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

While the deficit and debt are serious problems, I oppose solving these problems by raising taxes.

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

I have actively opposed every bailout, every rebate check, every so called 'stimulus.'

The way to reduce the deficit is to create jobs and work opportunities so that people will have money with which to pay taxes.

We simply can't spend our way out of a recession.

The biggest reason we know Justin Trudeau will raise taxes is because his never-ending deficits will force him to.