former congressman and senate candidate pat toomey weighed in with the republican's message this weekendtake a listen. >> we should make the current tax rates permanent instead of raising them at the end of the year and we should cut capital gaines taxes to encourage business investment. even prominent democrats said the last thing we should be doing in a recession is to raise taxes. >> bret: mark, should all the tax cuts be extended? >> yes, i don't think it would be appropriate at this time to raise taxes on any one. certainly not in 2011. i think when we move into 2012 and '13 when presumably the any is on firmer ground i would allow the tax rates to revert back to what it was in the 1990s. we need do that. our deficit is too high and our debt load too wide and we have to address that in part by higher taxes. in my view, addressing the long-term fiscal situation would be most appropriate by restraining spending growth but tax increases are part of that and tax increases on upper income individuals has to be part of that. when the economy is off and running i think we should raise rate

hi, i'm pat toomey from the great state of pennsylvania, and i'm pleased to have this opportunity to share a few thoughts with you today. like a lot of americans all around the country, i really believe america is at a crossroads. i'll always be optimistic about america. we're too strong a people and too good a country to be held back for long. but i am deeply concerned about the direction we're heading in right now. that direction is being driven by extreme policies that are coming from one-party domination of government in washington. and this extreme ideologically driven agenda is preventing the strong economic recovery and job creation that we should be having. it's time we put some real checks and balances back in place this november. let's take a minute to review what's happened in just the last 18 months. first, there were the ill- advised taxpayer funded bailouts of fannie mae and freddie mac and the car companies. now, to be fair, the bailouts were begun under the previous administration. but the crew that's in charge now ramped them up when it was perfectly clear that they