[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 109 (Tuesday, August 9, 1994)]
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               GOVERNMENT IS TOO BIG AND SPENDS TOO MUCH

  (Mr. DOOLITTLE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. Speaker, Government is too big and spends too 
much. Senator John Danforth, vice chairman of the Bipartisan Commission 
on Entitlement and Tax Reform, is quoted in the Post this morning as 
saying, ``We are on a course toward national bankruptcy. The question 
today is what are we going to do about it?''
  Other members of the commission have an idea of what they are going 
to do about it. One has the idea that we should start taxing the amount 
of money the employer contributes to your pension. Another has the 
thought that we should tax the amount of money the employer pays for 
your health plan. Some think that we ought to tax the interest we pay 
on our home mortgage and can presently deduct.
  Keep in mind, Mr. Speaker, the average family of four with a median 
income already pays over one-third of that income to the Government in 
taxes. The President and Mrs. Clinton are pushing socialistic health 
care. Such health care would become the largest entitlement of all, and 
it would simply accelerate our Nation's bankruptcy. President Clinton 
ought to recognize that Government is too big and spends too much.

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