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Former Gov. Florio on Gun Control, Fiscal Cliff

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    Former Gov. James Florio, (D-NJ), on calls for further gun control and the fiscal cliff negotiations.

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-- the right to choose to buy -- -- has to be respected rather as it gives her gun and an assault weapon ban.

But Peggy was talking about Orange defense yes and there's a right to have a constant constitutional right to have a -- But the court decision also was -- reasonable restrictions on ownership of -- a permissible.

Even talk about reasonable restriction but isn't that everything is -- that restricting the type of person who buys ago and and making sure that the checks are are done as well as they should be well that's a whole different issue in the checks right now.

I was -- I was embarrassed to watch the congress.

Earlier in the year.

Take a mobile band with the abilities so we're going to wouldn't person -- the terrorism -- the bill didn't pass so today.

-- -- the terrorism list is eligible to go buy a gun and makes no sense -- well whatsoever.

Governor if we can just talk about the fiscal cliff because you have a lot of experts who taxes in fact a lot of people say that you lost.

Reelection because of the tax issue because you instituted taxes and many people -- to be trader promised the way the first President Bush did.

You raise taxes were voted out office actually governor Jon Corzine -- -- your predecessors also raise taxes.

Was voted out of office is there -- political risk to do and it's.

Well there's little -- doing nothing.

And the question is what do you -- but the taxes.

You have if you think its services are being provided adequately.

Then -- you don't need revenues but it doesn't need for -- for services and you -- but -- President the president is increased spending by 800 billion dollars a year.

That's a 25% he's only gonna get a hundred billion by raising taxes that's that's under the best case scenario he's still gonna -- 700 billion.

I suspect what's happening now is no one wants responsibility to increasing taxes on the 98% of people.

Who make less than 250000.

Dollars so you can have a kind of -- combination governor chancellor wonderful OC governor thank you for coming it was refuted her Christmas.