[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 111 (Thursday, August 11, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 11, 1994]
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                NEW TAXES NOT NEEDED BY AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, there are three items that appear in all 
the major legislation that has been drafted by the Democrat leadership 
here in Congress. Those three things are: Taxes, taxes, and more taxes. 
It seems that is all they want to think about.
  Both the Clinton-Mitchell bill and the Clinton-Gephardt health care 
bills are chock full of new taxes. And yesterday the CBO attacked the 
Mitchell bill, saying it would result in $1 trillion in subsidies over 
the next 8 years, widespread bureaucratic problems, increased 
unemployment, incentives for the poor not to work, more Government 
agencies to implement the plan, and employer mandates that are going to 
kill American jobs.
  A group of bipartisan Members here in this House have drafted a 
health care bill that has no new taxes. The bipartisan supporters 
understand that the Government is already too big and spends too much. 
Passing taxes on to the American people will only result in bigger, 
more expensive Government bureaucracy. It is not what the American 
people need, nor is it what they want.

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