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Todd Rokita: The ``people's budget''? This budget, if enacted, would end this country as we know it. This budget increases spending…

On the recordApril 15, 2011
The ``people's budget''? This budget, if enacted, would end this country as we know it. This budget increases spending, Mr. Chairman, by $13 trillion over 10 years. It takes $16 trillion more from the American people over 10 years through the biggest tax increase this country has ever seen. It increases our debt $3.5 trillion over 10 years. This isn't the people's budget. This country was founded on equal opportunity for everyone, not equal outcome. History is littered with countries and nations that have failed because they tried for equal outcome. This country remains the greatest Nation the world has ever seen because we pride ourselves and enforce equal opportunity. I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Lankford).
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Todd Rokita
Indiana
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Apr 15, 2011

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