Mark Neumann: “If we look at this chart over here, and we see that spending was going up at this rate before, and now spending is only…”

“If we look at this chart over here, and we see that spending was going up at this rate before, and now spending is only going up at this rate and even slower yet, if the government had spent this much more money instead of doing tax cuts, so the government spends it instead of leaving it in the pockets of the American people, is there anyone in this country that honestly believes that, by spending this much more money, the government would have done a better job spending that money than our families would out there in Wisconsin or in Michigan or anywhere else in America? Does one honestly believe that the government here in Washington knows how to spend that money better than the people out there in America? I think what is real important here is to understand that, if we had not done the tax cuts, that we were actually getting this money back to the people, and we could not frame it in this framework of, well, listen, we are going to do one of two things, we are either going to spend it here in Washington or we are going to let our families keep it themselves, it was that framework, it was that idea that we could allow the American people to keep the money instead of Washington spending that has helped us control this growth of government spending.”