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We must stop spending money that we just don’t have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth.”

— Kristi Noem

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Source: As cited by Tom Lawrence in "S.D. Rep. Noem pushes for big cuts in federal spending", The Daily Republic (March 11, 2011).
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What our family has done is participate in the farm programs. And so the farm programs I think essentially almost every farmer in South Dakota has participated in those, and they haven't been bailouts, they have been programs that the United States has put forward for farmers to participate in.

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