Glenn Grothman: “The first point I would like to make is some people feel this bill is a political instrument that will never become law.…”

“The first point I would like to make is some people feel this bill is a political instrument that will never become law. I see the current leader in the polls for next year's Presidential election signing this bill next February. So we have to pay careful attention to what is in it. {time} 1600 I take three things out of this bill. First of all, another $3 trillion further in debt together with the $3 trillion we have already passed and the natural trillion-dollar deficit we have here. In the current year, we will go about $22,000 more in debt for every man, woman, and child in the country. The second thing we take out of this bill is it is designed to discourage work. We extend, by Wisconsin standards, another 6 months in which people will be paid the equivalent of $50,000 a year not to work, and we are moving the work requirements for SNAP. In other words, it is an embracing of the idea that we want to discourage work and destroy our economy. Finally, it is this effort to get more and more people to come here illegally. We are removing the requirement that you have to have a Social Security number for the earned income tax credit, and we are saying not only the new $1,200 per person but the old $1,200 per person will go to people who do not have a Social Security number. I cannot think of a quicker way to ruin the country.”