“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordMay 22, 2012
Why oh why oh why, as we as Americans, give up our taxing authority, handing money over to the United Nations...
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho
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Editor's note · Context

Risch questions ceding U.S. taxing authority to the UN for international agreements.

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