05/07/2009
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"I thank you, and Governors Warner and Kaine and King work hard to deal with the budget issues that they face."
"obviously you suggest the choice of reducing deficit between cutting spending and raising taxes, the better choice is to reduce spending."
"We cannot continue on this path."
"Rather than increasing tax rates, we should take a lesson from the tax rate reductions of the 1920s, 1960s, and 1980s."