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Congressman Roscoe Bartlett Voted “Yes” on the Payroll Tax Economic Relief Conference Agreement
Washington,
Feb 17 -
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett voted “yes” on the payroll tax economic relief conference agreement. He released the following statement.
“This was a really tough vote because we’re helping people who are really hurting. However, balancing one year of spending on the backs of federal workers over the next ten years is neither fair, nor sustainable. It is not shared sacrifice to scape goat new federal workers to pay over ten years for a temporary ten-month extension of payroll tax relief, unemployment benefits, and reimbursement rates to doctors who treat Medicare patients. Our National Debt is now larger than Americans’ total annual economic output – more than $15 trillion. It is imperative that Americans make shared sacrifices to reduce borrowing 40 cents of every dollar that the federal government spends. This is a monumental task. If Congress cut all discretionary spending to zero, including for national defense and eliminated all federal government workers, we couldn’t eliminate the annual trillion dollar deficits that President Obama asks Americans to support as normal for his presidency. ”
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