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Rep. West: Why does Obama want to raise taxes on anyone?

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    Florida congressman weighs on fiscal cliff

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The Republican congressman.

From Florida Allen west the congress in the -- You're gonna be leaving this circuits very soon -- -- willow lame duck session even be able to resolve it.

While I don't know what the -- and accessible peer to resolve a book about think we need to have people to come together on a consensus and decide that they want to have policies.

-- will stimulate economic growth in this country and not we have to get away from these politics of these bad thoughts and bad that he has.

You know I would like to look the president eyeball to eyeball and -- barriers between what -- motivation for -- -- axis.

On anyone in the United States where America when you consider you know quantitative -- 3.5 where we are.

Printing money to the -- those ordered brilliant a -- To -- are -- now treasury bonds these little.

Chicken -- we're talking about 85 billion a year in new revenues or even less than that forty billion year.

A new revenues of magistrate and all the top 1% that's put spoon in the ocean they also.

Probably we have people that are very serious about the fiscal situation and not that the number one thing we have to understand -- about -- fiscal responsibility.

Let's go back to the Simpson -- plan.

Let's go back and look at the three to one ratio.

Where you get rebels were -- the -- let's put that up short that's -- should we have that let's make sure that we see that and we.

How do you have news that it looks like you guys are all throughout your arms.

You're not all of them already send I am I looked.

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-- -- well know unfortunately it's always the guy ensures we will be stated we be everybody else you have a bad idea that's it zooms in to leave -- Well you know.

I don't know what else we could be sitting up here lest we have a -- if they don't want to come together on you -- -- -- -- also.

And that's -- we should be working on you know the legislative branch because you're right -- order.

They come up with the right -- legislative policies but look we've already had the -- in the house -- -- we don't want to see Texas were responding to what we've already had a -- -- out of state law the state lost sequestration.

For a year ears are still the cup player.

That is sitting -- Harry's -- -- needs to take some action.

-- I think that people need to always borrow -- -- you know everyone is responsible for the -- the the circular foreign squad and the trigger point.

Now the end result says a lot of your colleagues congressman would be open.

It's -- raising taxes on those millionaires but they didn't see any quid pro quo they didn't see any.

Comparable.

Cuts in spending do you think if they did -- the same.

Who'll rejected raising taxes on even the very wealthy would this time except.

But once again they -- bring up the simple point it will raise taxes on that up -- percent of them millionaires should talk about.

Forty billion dollars in new revenue per year what does that do we have over sixty trillion dollar said that the supposed to but -- -- -- -- -- What does that -- -- already starting our fifth year but estimate actually -- plus deficits.

I don't think anyone in this city in the -- serious about but the real problem is -- spending the people watch that these states.

Congressman we'll -- it works out.

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