Steve Scalise: “Democrats wanted to see a tax increase on every single…”

“Wages are actually higher than where they were two years ago. The deficit is down because we cut $1.6 trillion in wasteful spending. Every Democrat opposed that, by the way, because Democrats wanted to see a tax increase on every single working family in America. We stopped that from happening. But if Democrats get back power, that's what will happen. And they've said it. They've said a whole lot of other crazy things, too.” (12:30–12:37)

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