Deborah Koff Ross: “The gentlewoman is so right, and I appreciate her sharing her experiences. I was at Pine Bluff High School on Monday…”

“The gentlewoman is so right, and I appreciate her sharing her experiences. I was at Pine Bluff High School on Monday, speaking to a couple of classes, history classes, and that is one of the things we talked about was the debt, the deficit and what it means to their generation, because, you know, it is what I call the debt tax. It is one tax that, debt as in D-E-B-T, not to be confused with the death tax. It is what in the Blue Dog Coalition we have coined as the debt tax, because as long as we have got a debt, as long as we are spending a half a billion a day paying interest on the debt, then that is a half a billion we don't have to meet America's priorities. And that debt tax has got to be paid back by future generations, our children and grandchildren, because I can assure you all these foreign investors and foreign central banks that are now funding our deficit, they are not going to forgive our debt the way that oftentimes in the past we have forgiven others debts. And I yield to the gentleman from Georgia. Glad to have you with us this evening, Mr. Scott.”