Political Quotes

Lester Johnson

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Mar 12, 2024

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?

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Mar 12, 2024

Unfortunately, this budget is another lost opportunity for the President to demonstrate leadership on pressing fiscal challenges.

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Mar 12, 2024

How are we ever going to recover from this?

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Mar 12, 2024

If you want to implement European-sized government, you'll need to impose European-styled taxes.

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Mar 12, 2024

I personally think in 2020 we spent too much.

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Mar 12, 2024

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.

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Mar 12, 2024

It's worth 85 cents. That is driving an awful lot of the numbers on your budget there.

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Mar 12, 2024

I personally think in 2020 we spent too much.

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Mar 12, 2024

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?

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Mar 12, 2024

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.

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Mar 11, 2024

What sparked 40-year high inflation?

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