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Jack Kingston: I do not think anybody paying taxes back home would disagree with that. It is also inefficient. What really happens…

On the recordApril 23, 1996
I do not think anybody paying taxes back home would disagree with that. It is also inefficient. What really happens, though, I know there are a lot of good people involved in government, elected and unelected. A lot of good folks are called bureaucrats. But you know what I think of having been around a lot of teenagers? I know a lot of teenagers who individually are fine folks, but when you get a pack of them in your living room or a pack of them in your kitchen, strange things happen and all those individual good people turn out to do some pretty stupid things as a pack. That is what happens in Washington. These folks need to go back home so they can continue to be good folks, because when they get together the association causes some real inefficient and irresponsible results.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Discussing the inefficiencies of government bureaucracy.

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