[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 39 (Wednesday, March 20, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2473]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 ``MR. CLINTON'S DISAPPEARING TAX CUT''

  (Mrs. SEASTRAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SEASTRAND. Mr. Speaker, this morning's Washington Times ran a 
lead editorial entitled ``Mr. Clinton's Disappearing Tax Cut.''
  What an appropriate title, Mr. Speaker.
  Let me quote the Times:

       For all the righteous rhetoric emanating from the White 
     House deploring the squeeze on middle-class family incomes. 
     President Clinton proved once again yesterday that he would 
     rather spend middle-class taxpayers' money than refund it. 
     That is the essential lesson to be gleaned from the 2,196 
     pages of the fiscal 1997 budget.

  Mr. Speaker, when all is said and done, President Clinton is more 
worried about Washington bureaucracy and Washington spending than he is 
about the middle class taxpayer. The President has spent the last 3\1/
2\ years breaking every campaign promise he ever made. And his new 
budget just proves that he is not serious about cutting taxes. What tax 
cut he does offer is temporary--but his tax increases are permanent.
  The Times is right. President Clinton would rather spend money than 
cut taxes.

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