Scott Garrett: “The average family has to sit down and say, this is what my income is going to be for the week, the month or the year…”

“The average family has to sit down and say, this is what my income is going to be for the week, the month or the year for the year ahead and say I am going to live within those means. At the same time, what they have to do is they have to set priorities. And I think that what the gentleman was also trying to elicit from the Democrats during this last budget hearing was to set priorities. What are your top-ranking priorities? What must we spend on and where should we spend it? And if there are other things that you don't want to spend on now because you don't have the money, what are they? They would never agree to do that, if the gentleman recalls. That is why I think they came up with this hollow, empty trust fund which, in reality, they could have said the trust fund is this big, since it is empty, or they could have said it is this large. Because if there is no money in it, there is no limit to how large the empty promises are. But the family budget can't do that, just like you said. But the other thing that the Democrats in Washington are able to do, besides print money, that the average family can't do, you know what else the family can't do? They can't raise taxes.”