I have only been here 36 years, but I have gone through it over and over where a Democratic administration has come in and said, we just need more taxes and we will cut spending. We have given them the more taxes, and the spending has never been cut.
Hatch critiques the pattern of tax increases without corresponding spending cuts under Democratic administrations.
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