[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 62 (Tuesday, May 7, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4441]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                   SUPPORT ELIMINATION OF THE GAS TAX

  (Mr. CUNNINGHAM asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman from California, who 
just spoke, was not on the big spenders list every year, then those 
folks would have more money in their pocket instead of increasing the 
deficit so much.
  Mr. Speaker, they said, Do we want to repeal the gas tax? Yes. Do we 
want to repeal the Social Security tax that the 1993 Clinton tax 
package put on our senior citizens? The President promised a middle-
class tax cut. Instead, he increased the marginal rate on the taxes for 
the middle class.
  The Democrats want to protect the power, the power to tax you, to 
bring money to Washington, DC, to support a big bureaucracy, and then 
turn that money back around and give it to you for education, as low as 
23 cents on a dollar, so they can fund their big Federal bureaucracy. 
if they want to help education, look at Haiti, look at Somalia, look at 
Bosnia: Billions of dollars for the President to send our troops. And 
guess what? Aristide is still there, Aideed is still there, and in 
Bosnia it is going to cost $10 billion. If they want to help education, 
cut out the foreign expansion. Support elimination of the gas tax.

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