[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 112 (Friday, August 12, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 12, 1994]
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                THE CLINTON HEALTH BILLS ARE SOCIALISTIC

  (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, Dr. Martin Feldstein in Tuesday's Wall 
Street Journal made the following comments about the President's health 
care bills. Dr. Feldstein is a professor of economics at Harvard. He 
said:

       President Clinton is increasing the pressure on Congress to 
     enact a massive and irreversible entitlement program to 
     subsidize health insurance and redistribute income. The tax 
     cost for this largest-ever welfare expansion would top $100 
     billion a year at today's prices. That's equivalent to 
     raising personal taxes across the board by nearly 20%.

  Mr. Speaker, the Clinton health care bills are socialistic, and, in 
commenting on socialism, the great Winston Churchill said this:

       Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of 
     ignorance and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the 
     equal sharing of misery.

  Mr. Clinton, I would say to you, ``I feel your pain.''

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