Below are a few examples of John's thoughts on current events.
ON ECONOMIC REFORMS AIMED AT HELPING FAMILIES, SMALL BUSINESSES
"To protect consumers from soaring gas prices, we need to harness new technologies and unlock America's energy resources in the Alaskan coastal plain, deep ocean energy zones, and elsewhere to lower gas prices, create jobs, and break America's dependence on foreign sources of energy. To protect taxpayers from pork-barreling politicians and wasteful Washington spending, we need an immediate earmark moratorium and we need to prohibit federal spending from growing faster than the overall economy. And to protect American families and small businesses, we need to stop the Democrats' largest tax hike in history, eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax, and give taxpayers the option of paying a flat tax and filing their taxes on a single page."
John Boehner
ON THE LARGEST TAX HIKE IN HISTORY
"As American families and small businesses face increasing food prices, rising health care costs, and gas prices that are nearly $4 per gallon, the very last thing they need is a higher tax bill. But that is exactly what this Democratic budget would deliver: a $683 billion tax hike that will impact every taxpayer – from single filers and families to small business owners and seniors. No one is immune from the Democrats' largest tax hike in American history.
"What makes this tax hike even more outrageous is how the Democratic Majority intends to use it: to fund more wasteful Washington spending. In fact, for the first time in history, this budget tops the $1 trillion mark for overall discretionary spending. With too many families and small businesses across the country struggling to make ends meet, their leaders in Congress should not be asking them to support their trillion-dollar budget boondoggle."
John Boehner
