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Rep. John Flemming, (R-La.), on the president’s push for higher taxes and its impact on the economy.
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Again in just a minute the Democrats talk about enhancing revenue.
And so far they've -- their heels in on that one senator saying president has developed a fixation on a take a listen this.
Unless the president gets off of his absolute obsession with raising taxes.
Republicans are not going to agree to do anything -- will harm our economy.
And job killing taxes will harm our economy.
Process of raising taxes -- now is Republican congressman John Fleming of Louisiana sir is there any way around it does is any denying.
That that pres Obama is just is really really focused on raising our taxes.
Well Larry first of all stop right there the taxes are already going up under Obama here.
We're gonna see him skyrocket another 60800.
Billion dollars.
In eighteen months the bush tax cuts and -- we do something the bush tax rates if you will automatically go up.
And so I don't see any place for further tax increases and the Democrats to stay -- to this I think.
Because they wanna drive away -- between Republicans and their base.
Which is committed us and we've committed and we're not gonna raise taxes -- -- so -- we do this how do we get pass this.
Massive -- we have right in front of us a debt ceiling no word we've preceded it.
How do we not default on our bills without raising taxes.
Well even if we confiscated -- you know all the money from the wealthy we would.
Still not even come close to closing the gap on our annual deficits.
So that's not a solution and anyway plus that would slow the economy down further kill more jobs.
What we need Eric is not more taxes on the tax payers which now or in the -- -- in this country.
We need more tax payers and the way we get -- is to have more jobs in the way we do that is to take away the clouds from the future.
Which include Obama care the intense regulations that are out there now in certainly.
All the other parts of Obama economics it's it's really killing the economy and creating a cloud.
In the atmosphere for the small business job creators and -- -- some hearing.
Obama's comments is going to be attacks I'm hearing there may be other taxes and I'm also hearing the regulation is killing jobs yes.
-- your neck of the woods Louisiana that you could create jobs how would you do it.
Well we're creating jobs -- you're not in Louisiana and the reason is because we have -- oil and gas shales.
-- which are doing very well and we're concerned that the government is going after those right now and which had down Hydro cracking at horizontal drilling.
So if the government will stay off our backs we will do a great job creating jobs you know about offshore drilling where many jobs tens of thousands of jobs have been killed.
In the production have rates have gone down on offshore drilling.
And we're battling that to get that back up so we assess -- government to stay off of -- And we'll do a great job and we've yet been -- -- -- -- way government Galloway were coming through right.
Absolutely all right thank you very much.
