On Tuesday's Andrea Mitchell Reports, Republican Senator Judd Gregg had to remind Andrea Mitchell that hardworking Americans' money belongs to them and not the government, after the NBC reporter pressed him to “justify” a “larger tax cut for those who really don't need it.” On to discuss the tax cut deal in Congress, Gregg explained to Mitchell that the “problem we have as a government today isn't that we're an under-taxed people. It's that we're an overspending government.” However an undeterred Mitchell then went on to cite billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett as saying “at a time of deficit crisis that they don't need these tax breaks,” to which Gregg zinged back: “If Warren Buffett and Bill Gates want to send us money, we'll take it.” The following exchange was aired on the December 7 edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports: read more
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NBC’s Mitchell to Republican: How Do You Justify a Tax Cut for Those Who Don’t Need It?
