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Jim Jordan: “We're in the middle class, and we're the ones the tax hikes hit the hardest. We're trying to put our kids through…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2007
We're in the middle class, and we're the ones the tax hikes hit the hardest. We're trying to put our kids through college. Can't government live within their means? It's amazing how the American people get it. If you ask the American people in this framework, all this spending, all this debt, all this deficit, is it too much to ask to say, you know what, Government, just spend what you did before. And the playbook from the other side never changes. We want to spend what we spent last year in this appropriations bill. Not a cut. We want to spend what we did last year. Yet the other side will say, if we do that, the sky's going to fall, the world's going to end, everything will be terrible.
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Jim Jordan
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Discussing government spending and the impact of tax hikes on middle-class families.

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