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Walter B. Jones: “Is it not true also, according to the General Accounting Office, known as the GAO, that in 17 years without a balanced…”

On the recordJuly 10, 1996
Is it not true also, according to the General Accounting Office, known as the GAO, that in 17 years without a balanced budget, which the Republican Party is committed to achieving, without a balanced budget in 17 years, according to the GAO that average working person will pay 80 cents out of a dollar to taxes? Have your heard that?
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Walter B. Jones
North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of budget policies during a floor speech.

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