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On the recordDecember 9, 2010
That $750 billion is $75 billion a year for 10 years for millionaires and billionaires versus $13 billion once for senior citizens. In essence, that $750 billion--without getting too much into the weeds on numbers--in essence, we are borrowing that money from China, charging it to our children and grandchildren, putting it on their credit cards. They will pay it off who knows when. Then we are giving that $750 billion to people who are fabulously wealthy already, right? But they are unwilling to move forward on unemployment benefits or on your proposal to help a senior with $250 because they really are on strike. They say: We are not doing anything until you give tax cuts to the rich, to my people.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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