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Chris Collins: “If we can't pay our way now, what are we doing in borrowing on the backs of our children and grandchildren? It is just…”

On the recordJuly 7, 2016
If we can't pay our way now, what are we doing in borrowing on the backs of our children and grandchildren? It is just fundamentally immoral.
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Chris Collins
New York

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Collins criticizes borrowing that affects future generations as immoral.

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