[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 74 (Tuesday, June 14, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 14, 1994]
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                      NEW TAXES AREN'T THE ANSWER!

  (Mr. KNOLLENBERG asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KNOLLENBERG. Madam Speaker, we have all heard the heart-wrenching 
stories from our constituents about the problems with our present 
health care delivery system, but I have yet to hear from a majority of 
people from my district or across America who want to pay more in 
taxes.
  On both sides of Capitol Hill, the Democrat leadership is at it 
again--asking hard working Americans to dig even deeper into their 
pockets for yet another big Government proposal.
  And when I say deep, numbers upward of $190 billion cannot help but 
strike fear into the hearts of the American public.
  The people who elected us do not want unfunded mandates. They do not 
want new taxes. And they certainly do not favor increasing Government 
bureaucracy for a system that would be costly, untested, and 
unretractable.
  Our friends and neighbors on Main Street, U.S.A., want a common sense 
approach that not only fixes those parts of our health care delivery 
sector that are broken, but also saves the best of our present system.
  Madam Speaker, the American people want health care reform, and I 
wholeheartedly agree, but I refuse to place yet another burden on their 
backs, just to relieve another. This is non-negotiable with the 
American people. The American public is taxed too much not too little. 
I know it, and the Members of this House know it.

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