So, you're proud of a 10-year budget that never reduces the deficit, never brings it down below basically $1.5 trillion. You're proud of that work?
Lester Johnson
The Public Record
Unfortunately, this budget is another lost opportunity for the President to demonstrate leadership on pressing fiscal challenges.
If you want to implement European-sized government, you'll need to impose European-styled taxes.
I challenge them to set a date to mark this budget up. It won't happen because even most Democrats wouldn't vote for this calamity.
It's worth 85 cents. That is driving an awful lot of the numbers on your budget there.
So, you're proud of a 10-year budget that never reduces the deficit, never brings it down below basically $1.5 trillion. You're proud of that work?
I mean it's a fantasy if you make the rich pay their fair share, and by the way, the top 1 percent garner about 20 percent of the income and pay about 40 percent of the income tax.





