The Speaker of the House rules these things like this. Because we're reducing taxes for individuals, they're votable, but in actual fact this is a cost to the government, whoever the government of the day is. Is that not right? The treasury will be getting less money if this credit gets passed and put into law. If we wanted to balance that, we would have to find revenue from other sources to make up the deduction that people would get from this credit. Is that not correct?
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