[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 98 (Friday, July 11, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5135]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          DEMOCRATS WOULD TURN TAX CUTS INTO A WELFARE PROGRAM

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, I have not been listening to Rush Limbaugh 
this week, but I can only guess how much fun he is having making fun of 
the other side right now. I am not sure if we could make up anything 
more ridiculous than what I have been hearing from the left. Only 
liberal Democrats can possibly turn tax cuts into another welfare 
program. I guess Rush really does not have to work that hard to get new 
material. There is always another liberal outrage just around the 
corner.
  Here they are complaining that people who pay no Federal income tax, 
big goose egg on the old 1040, Mr. Speaker, complaining that these 
people are somehow getting cheated because they cannot get welfare 
money from a tax cut.
  Mr. Speaker, this is the mother of all welfare schemes, and if this 
is what the ``New Democrat'' is all about, then give me back the old 
ones.
  Can the President be serious that he wants working people to be stuck 
with a couple of billion dollars more welfare payments? Well, this is 
truly a bizarre way of increasing welfare spending.

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