The vice-presidential candidate palinated in response to many of the debate questions.
GWEN IFILL: Governor, please if you want to respond to what he said about Senator McCain's comments about health care?
SARAH PALIN: I would like to respond about the tax increases. We can speak in agreement here that darn right we need tax relief for Americans so that jobs can be created here. Now, Barack
Obama and Senator Biden also voted for the largest tax increases in U.S. history. Barack had 94 opportunities to side on the
people's side and reduce taxes and 94 times he voted to increase taxes or not support a tax reduction, 94 times.
Now, that's not what we need to create jobs and really bolster and heat up our economy. We do need the private sector to be able to keep more of what we earn and produce.
Government is going to have to learn to be more efficient and live with less if that's what it takes to reign in the
government growth that we've seen today. But we do need tax relief and Barack
Obama even supported increasing taxes as late as last year for those families making only $42,000 a year. That's a lot of middle income average
American families to increase taxes on them. I think that is the way to
kill jobs and to continue to harm our economy.