[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 59 (Thursday, March 30, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H3985-H3986]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


         SEEKING BIPARTISAN SUPPORT FOR A MIDDLE-CLASS TAX CUT

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, to a carefully assembled crowd of special 
interest groups, power brokers, government bureaucrats, Democrat Party 
stalwarts and the other sycophantic apple polishers, the President 
kicked off his reelection effort with his Atlanta economic summit. 
Boasting on his economic record to this tough audience, the President 
somehow failed to mention that interest rates are higher than when he 
was first elected. The public debt is expected to rise another $1 
trillion, trade deficits are at an all- 
[[Page H3986]] time high, and the dollar is losing value overseas. but, 
more importantly, he did not respond to the charge of Dan Ratachzak who 
said that real income of Americans has fallen, which means that, while 
one may be making more, than their actual spending power has fallen. 
Perhaps, if the President and the Democrat Party acknowledged this, 
then they would join the Republican Party in working for a middle-class 
tax cut because, after all, cutting taxes is not Congress sending 
Government money to the people. It is just that we are not going to 
take the people's money in the first place.
  I hope that we will get some bipartisan support on this much needed 
tax cut.

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