Ron Lewis: “You know, this is the bottom line: 40 years of tax and spend with no…”

On the recordJanuary 3, 1996

You know, this is the bottom line: 40 years of tax and spend with no offer of a balanced budget, and we are continuing to hear from the other side that we are extremists, that we are mean- spirited, that, as one gentleman said this evening, that we were lunatics, that we are completely out of control. This Government is $5 trillion out of control because liberals in this House for 40 years spent money that they did not have, and they want to continue to do that even though they talk about a balanced budget, and that, you know, that is not fiscal responsibility. That is not common sense. Where will the Interior workers be in the year 2012 when every tax dollar will be consumed by entitlements and interest on the debt?

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Ron Lewis

Kentucky

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Addressing government spending and the need for a balanced budget.

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Ron Lewis: “You know, this is the bottom line: 40 years of tax and spend with no offer of a balanced budget, and we are continuing…”

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