[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 47 (Monday, April 15, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3240]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  SAY ``NO'' TO MASSIVE TAX INCREASES

  (Mrs. SEASTRAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks and include 
extraneous material.)
  Mrs. SEASTRAND. Mr. Speaker, for the last 40 years, Congress has 
violated some basic economic principles on the way to creating a 
massive high tax, high regulation, big-spending welfare state. One of 
those principles violated is that you should live within your means.
  Beginning with Arkansas in the 1930's, the States began to put 
constitutional limits on taxing and spending. This chart compares the 
growth in State spending in the 10 States that require a supermajority 
to raise taxes to those that do not.
  Clearly, we can see that spending is more restrained in the 
supermajority States.
  This is exactly what we need at the Federal level--a serious 
commitment to spending restraint and the ability to say ``no'' to 
massive increases in Federal spending, Federal programs, and Federal 
benefits.
   Mr. Speaker, it is time to follow the lead of the 10 States that 
require a supermajority to raise taxes. And it's time for the 
Government to do what every American family does--live within its 
means.

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