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On the recordJune 5, 2012
Can you offer us any examples of a nation that has ever spent and borrowed and taxed its way to prosperity?
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

McClintock questions the effectiveness of spending and borrowing as a means to achieve economic prosperity.

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