Marshall Sanford: “it strikes me that to properly control crime we first have to control spending. To properly control our borders, I think…”

“it strikes me that to properly control crime we first have to control spending. To properly control our borders, I think we first have to control spending. If we do not, a child born into America today will one day pay an 82 percent tax rate just to keep our government solvent. What I want to focus on, instead of the facts and figures that I think we all know, though, is the human side of this cost. We are talking about $466 million. We are talking about a 1.9 percent cut that we argue we cannot make in Washington. I would argue that we can and we must because, if we take for instance the small town that I grew up in, Dale, SC, that had just a few hundred folks living in it, it would take them working and then paying taxes for the next 800 years simply to make up this 1.9 percent. Or if we went back into my district near Charleston, it would take 155,000 people paying taxes for 1 year to equal the 1.9 percent for the $466 million that we are talking about. Those may not be real numbers in Washington, but they are very real numbers over 1 year or 800 years of sweat and toil back home in South Carolina. For that reason I would urge adoption of this amendment.”