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John Campbell: But if the budget passed by the Democrats in this House, when was it, last week, were to become law, then we will have a…

On the recordFebruary 7, 2007
But if the budget passed by the Democrats in this House, when was it, last week, were to become law, then we will have a rainforest in Iowa, and it will be built with $50 million of your money. That is you people watching. It will be tax money taken from you to pay to build a rainforest in Iowa. Now, Democrats have only been in charge for a little longer than 30 days, and already they have made it easier to raise taxes. They raise taxes on domestic oil and gas producers. I mean, I totally don't get that when here we are trying to become less reliant on foreign oil, and we have gas prices where they are, and they are going to tax domestic oil and gas producers. And, of course, when they tax them, they spend the money on an entirely new program, and then on top of that then they pass this budget which allows this rainforest in Iowa to go through and spends another $10 billion, which increases the deficit not reduces it.
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John Campbell
California

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Criticizing the Democratic budget proposal and its implications for taxes and spending.

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