Taxes hurt the victims?

"One of the worst things we could do to our economy right now is raise taxes. It would particularly hit the people who have been affected by this hurricane hard." -Scott McClellan, White House Press Secretary

What?! How does raising taxes affect the people who have nothing? It doesn't make goddam sense. Raising taxes would take from the people who currently are recieving incomes, not take from people without incomes. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my entire life, and further solidifies impressions of how economic conservatives will lie to protect the wealthy.