[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 111 (Thursday, August 11, 1994)]
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                             RAISING TAXES

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, this week the Wall Street Journal ran a 
column by noted economist, Martin Feldstein, who explained that the 
Clinton-Mitchell health care bill contained a hidden $100 billion tax 
increase. If enacted, the Mitchell health care proposal would be the 
largest expansion ever of the welfare state. Enacting it, incredible as 
it may seem, would be equivalent to raising personal income taxes by a 
staggering 20 percent. No, you heard me right, 20 percent.
  Last year, the Democrats claimed to solve the budget deficit problem 
by doing what? That is right. Raising taxes. This year both the 
Clinton-Mitchell and Clinton-Gephardt bills claim to be the right 
prescription for what ails our health care system. Their solution? 
Right. Government takeover of our health care system and raising taxes. 
And, raising taxes by the equivalent of 20 percent. That is equivalent 
to a tax increase of more than $5,000 for each individual person 
insured and a cost of $20,000 for a family of four.
  The American people know what the Democrats are up to. That is why 
they do not support the Clinton plan, and why, if they find out what is 
in the Clinton-Mitchell and Clinton-Gephardt plans, they will not 
support them either. After all, if it is a Democrat idea, it has to 
involve, you guessed it, raising taxes.

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