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WASHINGTON – U.S. Congresswoman Candice Miller (MI-10) today spoke on floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in support of this week’s YouCut vote – Prohibiting new funding for the IRS for the purpose of enforcing the individual health care mandate. If the legislation passed, Congress would have saved the taxpayers between $5 and $10 billion:

“Our national debt is over $13 trillion and our annual deficit is expected to be nearly $1.6 trillion this year alone. The American people have had enough of this out-of-control spending. Today, House Republicans offer another measure to cut spending that was chosen by the American people in the YouCut program. This provision will cut funding for the IRS which is authorized to hire thousands of new agents to enforce the un-Constitutional individual health care mandate. This cut will save taxpayers up to $10 billion.

“The purpose of the health care law was supposed to be to reduce costs and make health care more affordable. Does anyone truly believe that thousands of new IRS agents will really reduce health care costs? The new IRS agents’ job will be to verify that you have acceptable, government approved health care or they have the authority to impose a fine of up to 2% of your income.

“What we need to do is to help to create new jobs – not hire an army of new IRS agents to impose job killing taxes, new mandates and new penalties on the American people.”

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