[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]


                        A MIDDLE-CLASS TAX CUT?

  (Mr. BARRETT of Wisconsin asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARRETT of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, $200,000. $200,000. $200,000. 
$200,000. Is that middle class? Is that the middle-class tax cut we are 
talking about? No, that is the Republican tax plan we are talking 
about. To help families who make $200,000 because they are middle class 
and they need a tax cut.
  Well, I can tell you, you can buy a lot of hamburger helper and 
generic cereal if you make $200,000 a year. But we are going to pay for 
it. We are going to pay for some of it by going after the kids on 
school lunch programs. We are going to pay for some of it by going 
after students who get college loans. We are going to pay for most of 
it by sticking it on our children and our grandchildren because we are 
going to let the deficit grow, and this tax cut is going to explode to 
nearly $700 billion over the next 10 years so people in this House can 
go to the American people and say yeah, we do not like taxes.
  I do not like takes taxes either. I hate taxes. But even worse than 
tax and spend politicians are borrow and spend politicians, because at 
least people who pay their bills now can look you in the eye and say I 
am not going to stick it to your son and daughter. The Republicans 
will.

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