[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 90 (Wednesday, July 13, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 13, 1994]
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                    MANDATES: ANOTHER TAX ON WORKERS

  (Mr. HASTERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HASTERT. Mr. Speaker, we have heard a lot of, I guess, 
reconstructionist history over the last year about tax increases and 
who pays and who does not. We have also heard the same stories about 
job creation.
  But we ought to realize where jobs come from in the last year has 
been outof the tough economic decisions of small businesses and their 
competitiveness in being able to put people to work.
  Well, there is no shortage of economic studies that find massive job 
losses resulting from any imposition of employer mandates to small 
businesses to fund the Clinton health care plan.
  A survey of 40 studies found estimates running from 600,000 to 3.8 
million jobs destroyed by the imposition of what should be called by 
its true name: a new payroll tax.
  Mandate is just another bogus term concocted by the White House spin 
doctors to hide the true nature of their proposals which, as usual, are 
yet another tax hike on the middle and working class.

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