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On the recordMay 7, 2012
As my friends on the other side of the aisle are repeatedly discovering, there just is not enough revenue available from taxing the so-called rich to pay for the size of government that the President desires.
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Orrin Hatch
Republican · Utah

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Hatch argues against the feasibility of taxing the wealthy to fund government size.

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