In today's Wall Street Journal, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) identifies two justifications for his unequivocal opposition to any impending tax increases: "The first concerns the pain that tax increases threaten to inflict on our economy over the short term. The second is to stop the slide under our current leadership towards becoming a stagnant European-style welfare state with limited individual opportunity and entrepreneurship."
http://blog.heritage.org/2010/09/20/morning-bell-the-economic-toll-of-the-obama-tax-hikes/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell