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Louie Gohmert: It is outrageous that we're allowing that kind of danger to permeate our border and we do nothing about it. It's time to…

On the recordNovember 15, 2010
It is outrageous that we're allowing that kind of danger to permeate our border and we do nothing about it. It's time to get something done. ... What we are trying desperately to avoid is the biggest tax increase in American history. ... If President Reagan had taken Art Laffer's advice and in 1981 had cut taxes 30 percent, as Art Laffer points out, we could have had the whole economy turned around in '81.
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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govinfo.gov
Nov 15, 2010

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The speaker addresses border security and tax rates during a discussion on economic policy.

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