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Joe Scarborough: for 40 years tax-and-spend liberals have come to Washington, DC and run up a $5.6 trillion debt that is going to be…

On the recordApril 8, 1997
for 40 years tax-and-spend liberals have come to Washington, DC and run up a $5.6 trillion debt that is going to be passed on to our children. For 40 years, tax-and-spend liberals have increased taxes to a point that the average American is now paying 50.2 percent of every dollar they make to Washington and State levels, and yet these same tax-and-spend liberals come up talking about how they want to help children. But guess what? The way they want to help children is to increase taxes. The way they say we help children is increase spending through another Federal bureaucracy. Mr. Speaker, if we are going to help children, we have got to make sure that taxes are reduced and Federal spending is reduced, because a bipartisan commission headed by Senator Kerrey projected a few years ago that my boys are going to be paying 89 percent of every dollar they make in 30 years to the Federal Government in Washington. It is wrong, and it is immoral, and it is demagogic to suggest that we can help the children of America by raising their taxes and increasing a new layer of bureaucracy in Washington.
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Joe Scarborough
Florida

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Addressing the impact of tax policies on future generations during a floor speech.

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