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Scott Brown: "I'm Glad Grover Norquist Agrees With Me"

Clipped from:Massachusetts Senate Debate
Oct 10, 2012

Scott Brown says he will never raise taxes on millionaires, billionaires and oil companies.

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00:00:01 YOU HAVE A MINUTE.
00:00:03 >> YOU ARE ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTION.
00:00:06 WHERE ARE WE GOING TO RAISE REVENUES?
00:00:09 WHAT SENATOR BROWN HAS DONE IS TAKE THE PLEDGE, MAKING SURE HE HAS SAID HE WILL NOT RAISE TAXES BY $1, ON MILLIONAIRES, BILLIONAIRES', BIG OIL.
00:00:20 THAT EXACTLY IS WHAT HE HAS VOTED FOR.
00:00:24 HE ASKED BILLIONS OF THE REASONS BILLIONAIRES' TO PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE -- ASKING BILLIONAIRES TO PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE, HE VOTED NO.
00:00:38 THE INDUSTRY WHERE THE BIG FIVE MADE $137 BILLION IN PROFITS LAST YEAR, SENATOR BROWN SAID KEEP THOSE SUBSIDIES FLOWING TO THE OIL COMPANIES.
00:00:47 FOR ME, WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT IS WE HAVE TO FIND THE RIGHT BALANCE IN THE SYSTEM.
00:00:53 WE HAVE TO GO TO A SENSIBLE PLACE.
00:00:56 WHEN THE QUESTION COMES OF THE ASPIRING TAX CREDITS, SO TAXES COULD GO UP FOR 98% OF THE FAMILIES HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS, AND 97% OF SMALL BUSINESSES, SENATOR BROWN SAID HE VOTED AGAINST THAT, WOULD LET TAXES GO UP, UNLESS THERE WERE BIGGER BREAKS FOR THE TOP 2%.
00:01:18 THIS IS ABOUT WHOSE SIDE YOU STAND ON.
00:01:22 >> 90 SECONDS.
00:01:23 >> I AM GLAD I AM AGREED WITH.
00:01:27 WE SHOULD NOT RAISE TAXES ON ANYBODY IN THE MIDDLE OF A RECESSION.
00:01:31 I WILL NOT BE RAISING TAXES ON ANY ONE IN MASSACHUSETTS OR ANYONE IN THE UNITED STATES.
00:01:36 WE ARE IN A FISCAL AND FINANCIAL EMERGENCY RIGHT NOW.
00:01:39 WE DO NOT NEED TO DO EVERY SINGLE TIME, SAY TAKE, TAKE, TAKE MORE AND MORE.