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Paul Ryan, Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee
April 20, 2010
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Washington is stuffing the beast – so much spending, so much borrowing a chasm of deficits that are so insurmountable that we are inviting a debt crisis where Congress might try to throw a whole new tax system on top. That’s why there is all this talk about a VAT. You literally cannot tax your way out of this fiscal problem. It is just mathematically not possible and if you try, you’re going to kill our economy.