Laurie Buckhout: “It comes down to overspending at the federal level, comes…”

“It's incredibly painful. Taxes, the debt, and the fact that your dollar is buying so much less. So it's extraordinarily painful in North Carolina families right now. And It comes down to overspending at the federal level, comes down to the debt and having no desire to even slow back on. It has to do with overregulation, has to do with fuel prices and the lack of domestic energy production. All of that is hitting families so hard. And not.” (07:31–07:39)

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