Kevin Brady: “Washington is out of touch with the real world again. Tax relief does not cause deficit spending, as we hear; spending…”

“Washington is out of touch with the real world again. Tax relief does not cause deficit spending, as we hear; spending causes deficit spending. Washington spends every dime we send up here. That is the reason why this Congress stopped deficit spending in America. That is why this Congress stopped 40 years of dipping into the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, and that is why this Congress has started to pay down a good amount of the national public debt. Mr. Speaker, make no mistake. The very reason we sent money back home to the people is because we will spend every dime of it. Look what we spend. Let us talk about the outhouse, the $1 million, two-seater outhouse that our National Parks and Wildlife built a year ago. Let us talk about the salmon. We spend $5 billion a year helping salmon swim upstream to their spawning grounds. We could put each fish in a first-class ticket seat and fly them to the top of the river each year and still save money. We have enough dollars for the priorities of America. What we do not have is enough for the priorities of silliness. Tax relief does not cause deficit spending, spending causes deficit spending.”