[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 81 (Thursday, June 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 23, 1994]
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                        A TAX BY ANY OTHER NAME

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, to paraphrase Shakespeare, ``A tax 
by any other name would cost as much.''
  Call them what you will--mandates, caps, triggers, they will still 
act like what they are: taxes. And they will cost America just as they 
always have in lost jobs, in increased costs, in foregone raises, in 
lost wages, in lost opportunities.
  To get the right answers you have to ask the right question, the 
basic question such as, who pays? Regardless of how the administration 
tries to disguise it, the answer is: Everyone who works, everyone who 
aspires to work, and everyone who has had to work.
  The something-for-nothing promise of Mr. Clinton and the liberal 
Democrats always degenerates into nothing-for-something for America.
  As my friends will recall, Trigger was what Roy Rogers rode into the 
sunset. President Clinton appears saddled and ready to do the same. Of 
course, Mr. Rogers also now owns a fast-food restaurant chain, so 
perhaps the President is thinking ahead.

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