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David Gergen: “If you spend a lot of money, as this administration wants to do, and as the Bush administration did, that combination of…”

On the recordAugust 2, 2009
If you spend a lot of money, as this administration wants to do, and as the Bush administration did, that combination of spending is going to force taxes to go up eventually.
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David Gergen
Independent · Massachusetts

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Explaining the relationship between government spending and the inevitability of tax increases.

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