I think the gentleman got agreement, but I am not sure it is what he and I agree with, that the tax burden is too high, that when the American people between the local, State and Federal government taxes are working Monday and Tuesday for the government, 40 percent of their income they are paying to taxes, the gentleman and I want that lowered.
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I think it is important we put this in perspective for any of them pointing fingers over here at that Republicans that Republicans want to use Social Security money for tax cuts.
I think what is real important here is to understand that, if we had not done the tax cuts, that we were actually getting this money back to the people, and we could not frame it in this framework of, well, listen, we are going to do one…
The gentleman from Michigan another question that I think kind of puts this all into perspective.
The gentleman from Michigan ever been in one of his town hall meetings and asked the question: How many people think government spending should go up faster than the rate of inflation?
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