[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 5, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4187]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                        THE FAMILY TAX-BREAK ACT

  (Mr. TUCKER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TUCKER. Step right up. Step right up for the GOP's famous 
disappearing act. Yes, the circus has come to town. Deficit reduction, 
now you see it, poof, now you do not.
  Yes, Republicans want to cut taxes, but it does not take a rocket 
scientist to know that they cannot cut taxes $700 billion and at the 
same time reduce the deficit.
  This slight-of-hand tax bill is not the deficit reduction that the 
voters have demanded and that the Republicans in their Contract With 
America have promised. The Republicans' proposed tax cut will explode 
the deficit at a time when deficit reduction is what is needed in this 
country most. This $700 billion tax cut will be a neat trick all right. 
It will take money out of the hands of the poor and give it into the 
hands of the very, very rich.
  Mr. Speaker, as Yogi Berra once said, ``It is deja vu all over 
again.'' The same trickle-down theory that they used in the 1980's is 
coming back again. It is the same trickle-down that quadrupled the 
deficit in the first place. In this sick, sad three-ring circus that 
they call the Republican GOP Party, we know that the elephants do not 
forget, but neither do the American taxpayers.


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