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Christopher Shays: “Really what the gentleman is describing, if the gentleman will yield, he is describing a situation where people think we…”

On the recordMarch 6, 1996
Really what the gentleman is describing, if the gentleman will yield, he is describing a situation where people think we have a revenue problem, and we know that we have a spending problem. Revenue keeps going up every year. It is just that our spending is going up by a greater amount.
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Christopher Shays
Connecticut

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Discussing fiscal policy and the relationship between revenue and spending.

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