[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 25 (Wednesday, March 9, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 9, 1994]
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                      THE KASICH BUDGET SUBSTITUTE

  (Mr. GRAMS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GRAMS. Mr. Speaker, in an editorial on the Kasich budget 
substitute entitled ``A Republican Budget,'' the Washington Post 
claimed:

       A tax cut is the last thing the country needs. The credit 
     Mr. Kasich proposes--$500 a child for families--would be 
     particularly wasteful.

  Mr. Speaker, when have the editorial writers at the Post gone beyond 
the beltway and talked to middle-class families about their needs?
  American families pay more in Federal taxes than for food, clothing, 
transportation, insurance, and recreation combined. And the personal 
exemption for children stands at $2,350, well below the $8,652 it would 
be worth had it been adjusted for inflation.
  Maybe a $500 per child tax credit seems wasteful to the editorial 
board at the Post. But take it from a father of four and grandfather of 
3, that is not what American families think. And recent polls showing 
two-thirds of Americans supporting the $500 per child tax credit is 
evidence of that.
  I urge my colleagues not to listen to the Washington Post, but to 
those who pay the bills for the Federal Government: American families. 
The Kasich substitute is not only a Republican budget--it is an 
American budget.

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