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On the recordSeptember 8, 2014
I think sometimes we forget, it is not the government that provides one single penny to run this machine.
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Mark Kelly
Democratic · Arizona

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizing that taxpayers fund government operations, not the government itself.

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