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On the recordFebruary 7, 2012
If the answer to our economic problem is more regulation so that we get more people hired for compliance, we could go out and start hiring people to go rob banks.
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Barton uses an analogy to illustrate his point about the inefficiency of compliance jobs.

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