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Bobby Scott: “I would say that if we had actually improved the economy with all those tax cuts, it might have been worth it. But this…”

On the recordMarch 2, 2006
I would say that if we had actually improved the economy with all those tax cuts, it might have been worth it. But this chart shows that the economic improvement, the number of jobs created since Herbert Hoover, it shows that after we have run the budget into the ditch, we still have ended up with the worst job performance since Herbert Hoover.
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Bobby Scott
Democratic · Virginia

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