[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 45 (Thursday, April 21, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: April 21, 1994]
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                         THE NEW ``FIX'' IS IN

  (Mr. EWING asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EWING. Mr. Speaker, the Democrat leadership has decided to fix 
the Social Security system.
  The new fix is to raise your Social Security taxes and lower the 
benefits you receive.
  Your Government in Washington is on the job. The same one that 
brought you the problem now has the solution. Again.
  Just last year the Clinton administration increased taxes on the 
elderly's Social Security benefits. Now they want to raise taxes at 
both ends by increasing both payroll taxes and benefits taxed.
  The Democrat plan would increase the tax employers pay. It would 
increase the tax employees pay. And it would cut the benefitS of the 
average contributor by 8 percent and cut the above-average 
contributor's by one-fifth. The operative words being--tax and tax and 
cut and cut the benefits.
  This is precisely the sort of solution Washington proposes for its 
programs that cannot pay their way--more from you and less from the 
Government.
  Are you not glad that Washington could take time from designing your 
new health care plan to tinker with your retirement plan?

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