11.   Given the hostility to raising taxes, the question is likely to be a heated topic for several years more.

12.   Governments are too busy raising taxes.

13.   He said he did not think raising taxes would be necessary to cover the expansion of programs and services, but did not rule out the possibility altogether.

14.   In that interview, Bradley was asked if he would consider raising taxes to pay for the plan.

15.   Miller said the RLC put up the spot because Forbes is running an ad that criticizes Bush for breaking a pledge against raising taxes in Texas.

16.   Now protesters are urging Bloomberg to take his head out of the sand when it comes to raising taxes.

17.   Property taxes are used mainly for school funding, and the state cannot afford to take much more of the education burden without raising taxes itself.

18.   Raising taxes to pay for the debt may only damp the consumer spending that is so crucial to an economic recovery, economists say.

19.   Raising taxes further would be economically burdensome and politically unpopular.

20.   Raising taxes would spark opposition, and lawmakers are just as loathe to cut programs that pay money directly to people.