[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 27 (Wednesday, March 5, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H728]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            KID TAX MUST GO

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, on the subject of campaign finance reform, 
I think there is a difference between enacting the laws that are in 
place and passing new laws to make it appear that there is a problem. 
There may be changes that are needed in our campaign finance laws, but 
clearly there are laws on the books that address the very things that 
the Clinton administration has apparently engaged in. And if they are 
guilty on that, the laws will respond accordingly, and I think that the 
Speaker is speaking to that, and I certainly believe that the Speaker 
was right in speaking out on this.
  The thing I want to mention, with the Democratic defeat of the 
Balanced Budget Amendment, the children of today are in a very bleak 
situation as respects the future. I am a father of 4 kids and I am sick 
and tired of the kid tax. The kid tax is when liberal politicians pass 
new entitlement programs so that they can get reelected today so that 
your children and my children can pay for it tomorrow. I believe that 
the kids in America are sick and tired of the kid tax and we need to 
balance the budget and quit spending their money.

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