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Marco Rubio: “There's no taxes you can raise, and at that point, at that…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Future Secretary of State Marco Rubio on China & American Economic Policy

Published | Video Starts at 31:17

But what you see now is an effort to put 4, 5, 6 trillion dollars on top of that already not, you know, all in one chunk. Not as a gradual thing. It's just not sustainable. There's, There's no taxes you can raise, and at that point, at that level, no amount of economic growth that will ever bring us back to a level of sanity. So, but I think the most immediate thing that the debt does is if it creates any sort of economic governmental instability in the country, that's a national security threat. (31:17–31:25)

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Asserts that neither tax increases nor economic growth can resolve the debt issue at a certain level.

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