But the American people are tired of this experiment, of us never doing anything to balance the budgets. They really are. And when I look at this, of the 4.5 trillion over this time period, The Tax foundation says just to keep your rates, everybody in this room, everybody in America's rates, The same is 3.2 trillion. Of that 4.5 trillion. So what we're saying is, is the American people are dumb, that they're better off to send that 3.2 trillion to us because we're better stewards of that money. (05:41–05:50)
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Asserts that maintaining current tax rates would cost $3.2 trillion of a $4.5 trillion total.
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