you can call me nuts, can you call me ching little, if you want. but the political battle being waged over extending the bush tax cuts is blowing those storm bands over our heads. look, you don t need me to tell you our economy is on the brink of weakening again. you feel it every day. latest cnn/orc polls just 27% of you say the economy is in good shape. 73% feel that conditions are pretty poor. and while rays of hope peek through the clouds from time to time, the u.s. economy is fragile right now. families are facing long-term unemployment. there are foreclosures. higher student loan payments. higher medical costs. so the notion that you may have to pay higher taxes by next year could make you decide not to spend money you otherwise would have spent. i get it. everyone wants lower taxes. but you can t have lower taxes. because for years and years, your federal government, both political parties, mismanaged the books and spent more money than they took in. our tax system i
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congress for decades and decades have really favored spending not cutting spending. on the tax issue, we re not for job killing tax increase. we think that s hurt the economy and we ran on that measure, as you know. we ran very strong on it in the elections. the american taxpayers agreed first, it s their money, not the government s and they ought to be available to spend it the way they want, not have the government take it away and decide how it gets parceled out. but under the new rules, why not at least have that paid for? if you re going to go along with the tax cut, pay for it. that s the difference of philosophy we have with the democrats. it s that we don t think tax cuts are something you have to pay for. because actually it s the people s money to begin with. it s not the government s money. and so our whole effort here is to let people keep more of the money they have. i was a small business owner with my wife for 20 years. believe me, coming out of oregon, we have some
un-american and disgusting. they ve already destroyed the clinton surplus, the american middle class, iraq and now they want to destroy the progress president obama and his administration has made along with the democrats to fix this entire mess. the wizard of obstruction, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell was on the attack on fox news sunday. look what they ve done. they re running banks, insurance companies, car companies, nationalized the constituent loan business, taken over health care. we don t need the government taking equality positions, ownership positions in any more private sector businesses. that s not the way out. the way out is to kill this job killing tax increase that s coming. time-out. did i hear him say take over the government? mitch, do you watch the news? united health care just recently announced these big profits they had in the second quarter. was that an obama takeover?