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Tim Griffin: When you have got small town mayors asking, begging for Federal money to build something completely unrelated to…

On the recordJuly 23, 2012
When you have got small town mayors asking, begging for Federal money to build something completely unrelated to anything in the Federal Government, it is because we have taken so much of their money in the first place, and we have created dependency with those mayors and those city councilmen.
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Tim Griffin
Arkansas

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Griffin criticizes federal dependency created by excessive taxation on local governments.

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