[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 16 (Wednesday, February 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 23, 1994]
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           THE CLINTON PLAN AND ITS EFFECT ON SMALL BUSINESS

  (Mr. BAKER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute, and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BAKER of California. Mr. Speaker, as we consider the President's 
health care reform plan, we must not forget small business and what 
harm this plan will do to them. The President's plan calls for a 
mandatory 7.9-percent payroll tax. This additional tax on hiring will 
cripple small business, and there is no guarantee that this tax will 
not increase in time, furthering the damage done to the backbone of the 
American business community.
  The Congressional Budget Office made several conclusions about the 
Clinton plan. First, it is a huge, untried expansion of government into 
the daily lives of all Americans.
  No. 2, it will create a greater deficit crisis than we already have 
today, over $70 billion for starters.
  And No. 3, every American family will be forced to pay for this plan 
with large payroll tax increases.
  But the analysis of the Congressional Budget Office is only part of 
the story. CBO did not talk about the implied rationing of the Clinton 
plan or the diminished quality or about the limited choice, the ability 
to choose one's doctor.
  Mr. Speaker, the Clinton plan is history. Let us now have a practical 
discussion on insurance portability and earlier primary care for the 
uninsured. This does not require turning medicine over to big 
government. That idea has been tried and failed. The Evil Empire is 
dead.

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