At a time when it's spending that's out of control, giving the federal government more money would be like giving a cocaine addict, all right, more cocaine. We've got to get spending out of control.
Boehner critiques the idea of increasing government revenue, comparing it to enabling harmful behavior, and calls for controlling spending instead.
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I once met him in New York during the Obama years to plead with him to put a leash on some of the crazies he was putting on the air. It was making my job trying to accomplish anything conservative that much harder.
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