Carolina QuotesQuestion: What about a tax to fund the war in Afghanistan? Ron Paul: Oh no... We don't need any of those wars... You don't raise taxes, that will only encourage them, what we need is to take all this money away from them, and say, bring the troops home...
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Washington Journal, C-Span, December 3, 2009
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