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Rand Paul: I would vote to change the taxes, but mainly to lower them for everybody. The point that I am trying to make is that the…

On the recordMay 21, 1997
I would vote to change the taxes, but mainly to lower them for everybody. The point that I am trying to make is that the large amount of capital that helped Europe recover did not come from the taxpayers. That was a small amount. There were a lot of other investors that went into Europe. The key reason was the political stability and the good economic climate which Erhard helped to introduce. I think that is much important. There is a difference between what happened in Europe versus the waste that we had in Rwanda. We did not do the people, the poor people of Rwanda, very many favors by sending money down there that became a political weapon to suppress the poor.
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Rand Paul
Republican · Kentucky

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Discussing tax changes and contrasting European recovery with aid to Rwanda.

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