Sen. Tom Coburn ready to downsize national debt

 
BY CHRIS CASTEEL
Published: April 25, 2010

WASHINGTON — Sen. Tom Coburn , believing the nation is very close to a debt crisis, is heading into the first meeting of a presidential commission on the nation’s fiscal problems adamantly opposed to tax hikes.

"I’m not going to support a tax increase in any way until we’ve eliminated waste in the federal government, the vast majority (of waste),” Coburn, R-Muskogee, said last week...


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