Wayne Allard: “I have to agree with the chairman of the Budget Committee. I joined him in voting against this budget. But generally…”

“I have to agree with the chairman of the Budget Committee. I joined him in voting against this budget. But generally this is what this budget does: we are back to the old spend- and-tax ways and increases in the debt. This budget has an increase, over a $900 billion tax increase. We have a nondefense increase in spending of $146 billion. The President has already come in with his budget with a 50-percent increase in spending. Now on top of this, this budget provides $146 billion. Then we look at the debt figures. We see that the debt is increasing by $2.2 trillion. This is unimaginable. If the tax increase goes into place--and that happens because there is no provision in here to make the tax cuts that were passed in the Republican Congress in 2001 and 2003 to make them permanent--by default these taxes are going to increase over $900 billion. That is going to be the largest tax increase in the history of this country.”