[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 87 (Thursday, June 13, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6291]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  REPUBLICANS MORE INTERESTED IN REDUCING TAXES FOR THE WEALTHY THAN 
                          REDUCING THE DEFICIT

  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, Members of the House, the cat is out of the 
bag. The radical Republican extremists are not in favor of reducing the 
deficits. They do want a tax cut, a massive tax cut, for the wealthy. 
We saw it last night.
  Mr. Speaker, if my colleagues listened to the chairman of the 
Committee on the Budget, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich], he never 
once in this closing argument for that budget, never once, mentioned 
the word ``deficit.'' In fact, under their budget, the reason he did 
not, under their budget next year the deficit goes up; the following 
year, the deficit goes up. It does not go down. They need to do that in 
order to give tax cuts for the wealthy.
  The spending cut for Medicare; where is that going to go? The 
spending cuts for food stamps; where is that going to go? Tax cuts for 
the wealthy, not to reduce the deficit, because the deficit is going to 
go up.
  Mr. Speaker, they are more interested in reducing taxes for wealthy 
than they are in reducing the deficits. I say let us reduce the 
deficits before we give any tax cuts for anybody. That is my position. 
Let us get a balanced budget first. Then we reduce the deficits.

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