Tax increases slow economic growth. Why would you raise taxes? We need to reform spending, the tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities can never be funded by tax increases, that can only be fixed by reducing spending.
People learn their politics at a young age and tend to stick with it.
I'm for tax reform, not tax increases.
Not continuing a tax cut is not technically a tax increase.
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.
Stupider than France is not where we want to be on tax policy.