[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 4, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4118]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DEFICIT

  (Mr. SALMON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SALMON. Mr. Speaker, well, as one of my heroes once said, there 
you go again. I think this is all in the definition. We have heard from 
the Democrats that we intend to give the tax cuts to the rich. The 
problem is your definition of the rich is anybody that works for a 
living.
  Mr. Speaker, we have heard a lot from the limousine liberals on the 
other side of the aisle about fairness. What they need to explain to us 
is what is so fair about the current system. The Clinton 
administration's own statistics show that Americans are working harder 
and getting less for it. Is that fair? Is this what the President meant 
when he talked about his comprehensive plan to get our economy moving 
again?
  We are going to begin working this week to restore fairness to the 
Tax Code. We will restore $25 billion in Social Security cuts 
engineered by Clinton and the Democrats, make it easier to buy that 
first home, or put your children through college, make it easier to 
adopt, and encourage capital formation. And we will pay for these tax 
reductions by cutting wasteful and unnecessary government spending. Our 
philosophy is simple: The taxpayer is not responsible for the deficit; 
Washington is. Let us face up to it.


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