But the deficits are future taxes. Whether you are taxing today, or you are taxing tomorrow, which is what we call a deficit, you are still taxing and those are the two ways that you pay for spending. So it seems to me, that with apologies…

Sovereign debt default then would not be an act of the Congress, it would be a malfeasance of the executive and not prioritizing payments to ensure a timely payment of the sovereign debt obligations.

Can you offer us any examples of a nation that has ever spent and borrowed and taxed its way to prosperity?

But going from theory to actual practice, I would look back over the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century and I see Harding reducing spending as percentage of GDP in the early 20s, Truman reducing it in the mid-1940s, Reagan…

First, I would like to remind the ranking member that the top 1 percent of income earners earn 17 percent of the income and pay 37 percent of the income taxes.

We're told that there isn't enough money for forest thinning, and yet we used to have no problems keeping our forests thinned and healthy when we sold commercially viable timber.

The excess timber is going to come out of the forest one way or the other. Either it is going to be carried out or it will be burned out, but it will come out.

This is not environmentalism. True environmentalists recognize the damage that is done by over-growth and over-population.

No picture I have seen paints a more vivid case for returning to these sound and proven forest management practices than an aerial photo of the Fraser Experimental Forest in Colorado a few years ago that is often called the Red Hand of…

Fortunately, from what I have seen, the American public has awakened to the ramifications of these policies and has had a bellyful of them, and it is in the process of replacing the politicians responsible for them.

I want to thank Congressman Scott Tipton for his leadership on these issues and for pressing to have this field hearing conducted here in Montrose.