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On the recordApril 14, 2011
And if you do that, you still can't balance the budget. You cannot tax your way out of this problem. We have to reduce our spending. If we reduce our spending and we reform our Tax Code, we can bring prosperity back to this country. But to sit here in this House and tell the American people that we can tax our way out, the bottom line is you can tax every penny of every profit of the wealthiest Americans and you can't balance the budget. Madam Chairwoman, I think we have to take a serious look at Congressman Ryan's budget. I'm willing to consider other commonsense solutions that are going to get this country back on track, but ones where we are going to demagogue plans and say we just have to raise taxes and not reform are not real solutions. That is going to give us more of the same.
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Sean Duffy
Republican · Wisconsin

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