Robert Ehrlich: “the gentleman from Georgia brings up a really interesting point which was really part of our earlier discussions…”

“the gentleman from Georgia brings up a really interesting point which was really part of our earlier discussions concerning how we got here, how we got to where we punish people who go out and take risks and accumulate capital and create jobs. And the gentleman talked about class jealousy, class warfare, and is it not true that unfortunately in American politics today class warfare, successfully argued, leads to votes? Is that not a proven formula? Is that not unfortunate? Is that not an unfortunate comment about the state of debate in our country today when it comes to what should be relatively--and I understand the gentleman from Arizona talked about earlier there are philosophical differences, legitimate philosophical differences, on the other side, but the fact is and the evidence, as the gentleman from California has articulated tonight, the evidence is such that decreasing taxes, ceasing the punishment of success results in economic growth, but not necessarily votes.”