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BECKY QUICK, CNBC: Senator Rubio, you yourself have said that you’ve had issues: you have a lack of bookkeeping skills. You accidentally intermingled campaign money with your personal money, you face foreclosure on a second home that you bought and just last year you liquidated a $68,000 retirement fund. That’s something that cost you thousands of dollars in taxes and penalties. In terms of all of that, it raises the question whether you have the maturity and the wisdom to lead a 17 trillion dollar economy. What do you say?
SEN. MARCO RUBIO: Well you just listed a litany of discredited attacks from democrats and my political opponents and I’m not going to waste 60 seconds detailing them all, but I’m going to tell you the truth. Here’s the truth: I didn’t inherit any money. My dad was a bartender, my mother was a maid. They worked hard to provide us the chance at a better life. They didn’t save enough money for us to go to school — I had to work my way through school, I had to borrow money to go to school. Trying early in my marriage explaining to my wife why someone named Sallie Mae was taking $1,000 out of our bank account every month. I know what it’s like to owe that money and we’ve worked hard. We’ve worked hard our whole life to provide a better life for our family. We owna home four blocks away from the place that I grew up in. My four children have been able to receive a good Christian education and I’ve been able to save for them to go to college so they never have to have the loans that I did. But I’m not worried about my finances, I’m worried about the finances of everyday Americans who today are struggling in an economy that is not producing good paying jobs while everything else cost more. And that’s what this economy … that’s what this debate needs to be about — this debate needs to be about the men and women across this country that are struggling on a daily basis to provide for their families the better future that we’ve always said this country is all about.
BECKY QUICK, CNBC: Senator, I understand all of that. I had a lot of student loans when I got out too but you’ve had a windfall that a lot of Americans haven’t. You made over a million dollars on a book deal and some of these problems came after that.
SEN. MARCO RUBIO: And I used it to pay off my loans and it’s available on paperback if you’re interested in buying it.
BECKY QUICK, CNBC: But you liquidated that retirement account after the fact and that cost you about $24,000 out of that in taxes and fees. That was after you had already come into that windfall. That’s why I raised the question.
SEN. MARCO RUBIO: Again, as I said, we’re raising a family in the 21st century and it it’s one of the reasons why my tax plan is a pro family tax plan. It increases the pro child [Family] Tax Credit because I didn’t read about this in a book. I know for a fact how difficult it is to raise children, how expensive it’s become for working families, and I make a lot more than the average American — imagine how hard it is for these people out there that are making 40,50 $60,000 a year and I’m trying to provide for their families at a time when this economy is not growing. We can’t afford another 4 years of that which is what we’re going to get if we elect a big government liberal like Hillary Clinton to the white house.
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