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Burgess Owens: “Why should they raise property taxes and other taxes when the Federal Government has a tremendous amount of waste that…”

On the recordMarch 13, 1996
Why should they raise property taxes and other taxes when the Federal Government has a tremendous amount of waste that ought to be transferred into education? Just to give one example. Most Americans are not aware of the fact that auditors at the CIA found $2 billion. Hear me carefully; I use the word B--billion--$2 billion was found in the petty cash funds that they had lost track of.
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Burgess Owens
Republican · Utah

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Discussing government waste and its implications for education funding.

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