John Boehner 8TH DISCTRICT OF OHIO

Where do you stand: do you want higher taxes for families and small businesses -- or more jobs and a stronger economy? Here’s a chart that compares the Democratic and Republican tax plans – and below is a look at what others are saying about both:

House Republicans are the only ones to pass a bipartisan plan that stops all of President Obama’s tax hikes on middle class families and small businesses, and to replace the devastating defense cuts that threaten our national security. Senate Democrats haven’t taken action (or passed a budget in more than three years) and President Obama is blaming everyone but himself for his failed economic policies. Here’s what others are saying:

• SMALL BUSINESSES: After president told small business owners “you didn’t build that,” many “are too afraid to spend or hire” under the looming threat of a tax hike.  One says there “could not be a worse time” for higher taxes.
  

• ECONOMISTS: A former Congressional Budget Office director says raising taxes would be “madness.” Other economists say the president’s tax hikes are “misguided in the extreme” – and all of them must be stopped.
  

• INDEPENDENT EXPERTS: After 42 months with unemployment above eight percent, a nonpartisan study by Ernst & Young found the president’s small business tax hike would destroy more than 700,000 American jobs.
  

• MANUFACTURERS: The National Association of Manufacturers says the president’s tax hikes are a “fundamentally bad move” that will hurt investment and job creation.
  

• AMERICAN PEOPLE: A McClatchy-Marist survey found a majority of Americans (52 percent) “prefer the Republican proposal to” to stop all of the president’s tax hikes – they don’t want taxes raised on anyone.
  

• MANY DEMOCRATS: More Democrats – including former President Clinton – are coming out against President Obama’s tax hikes. Even President Obama himself once said stopping the tax hikes was necessary to help our economy.
  

• OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Top officials say the ‘sequester’ cuts threaten our national security. The House voted to replace those cuts with common-sense savings and reforms.We’re still waiting for the president’s plan.
  

• REPUBLICANS: Republican leaders said they are ready to reconvene the House at any point if Senate Democrats also vote to stop all of the tax hikes that threaten our economy and replace the defense cuts that threaten our security -- or act on the more than 30 other House-passed jobs bills.
  

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