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On the recordAugust 12, 2022
The solution to the inflation crisis that the Democrats have set forward is to spend hundreds of billions of more dollars and to tax all hardworking Americans once again. You cannot spend your way out of inflation, and you cannot tax your way out of recession. But that is the recipe that the one-party, Democrat rule in Washington, D.C., has suggested for the hardworking Americans who are barely surviving to put food on their table, clothes on their backs, and gasoline in their cars. I will point out to the chairman that his President's budget outlined an additional $80 billion for the IRS. Highlighted in that budget he wanted 87,000 IRS agents. That is where the number is coming from, from your President, who provided a budget. I know in the Budget Committee, we have never had a hearing on budget for the last 3\1/2\ years. That is probably why you didn't know 87,000 auditors were in the President's budget. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
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Jason Smith
Republican · Missouri

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