John Boehner Bashes Obama and Dems on Taxes

Incoming U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, ripped into the Obama administrations economic programs.

Any sign of job growth in this struggling economy is encouraging, but clearly no match for the uncertainty families and small businesses are facing, which is why we must cut spending and stop all the looming tax hikes, said Boehner on Friday morning after review numbers showed thatnational unemployment rose to 9.8 percent in November.

Unfortunately, Democratic leaders continue to insist on wasting time with meaningless votes as they try to make it as difficult as possible to stop their job-killing tax hike, continued Boehner, commenting on the vote that took place in Congress on Thursday. Families and small businesses have had enough of politicians in Washington talking about creating jobs while doing everything in their power to kill more jobs. This is exactly the kind of Washington game-playing the American people voted against on Election Day. The lame-duck Congress should do the right thing and vote immediately to cut spending and stop all the tax hikes. If they dont, the new House majority will in January.

As economists and small-business owners have warned, the last thing our economy needs right now is a job-killing tax hike, concluded Boehner. Republicans are focused on keeping our 'Pledge to America' to cut spending and permanently stop all the tax hikes. Our economy will ultimately recover, but it will do so because of hard work and entrepreneurship, not more of the same job-killing policies and spending binges.