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On the recordJuly 1, 2012
The government could decide that we're going to tax you if you don't eat broccoli on Tuesday.

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John Boehner critiques the government's authority to impose penalties, likening it to absurd taxation.

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Lucifer in the flesh. In Washington I have many Democratic friends as I have Republican friends, I get along with almost everybody. But I've never worked with a more miserable son of a (bleep) in my life.

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