Jon Runyan Quotes

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

In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

I've made a commitment that any tax increase, I'm going to veto. It's the worst thing we could do. We have an amount of money to spend. That's it.

I believe very firmly that we can get to balanced budgets without raising taxes and without cutting transfers to the provinces or to individuals.

Government needs to get out of the way, focus more on affordability, manage taxes properly so we get the services we expect.

You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.

There's no reason to raise taxes. Taxes should be lower... The problem we have is that government spends too much, not that taxes are too low.

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.

You remember had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. And Paul told America, if you elect Republicans, we can fix that. But, if Paul Ryan was being honest, he would've pointed to the debt clock and said, we built that.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon. We had a $5 trillion surplus and we cut taxes.

What you really want to do is sit down and find a place that you can control government spending and raise more revenue.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending.

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.

If you ask people do you think that government should spend less money than what it takes in, most people agree with that.

We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen.

Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.

We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy.

My biggest objection to raising taxes is that it feeds the government addiction to spending money.

Only when the budget has been balanced and a substantial amount set aside for debt retirement, should we consider tax reduction.

I believe that in order to sustain a governing majority, the Democratic Party has got to learn that it can govern without raising taxes.

There are only two honest ways to reduce our debt: cut spending or raise revenues.