[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 152 (Tuesday, November 4, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H9871]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 AMERICAN PEOPLE SAY TIME FOR TAX CUTS

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, President Clinton traveled to Virginia 
yesterday and told voters who favored a tax cut that they were selfish. 
I am not kidding, he really said that.
  In Virginia, like most places, working families pay Federal taxes and 
State taxes, excise taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, and on and on, 
but Virginia, many folks pay a particularly odious tax, a car tax, a 
tax on their own personal vehicle which they must pay to the government 
year after year again and again. The Republican candidate for Governor 
of Virginia pledged to eliminate that tax, and that has made the 
President very angry.
  President Clinton is showing us the fundamental difference between 
conservatives and liberals once again, between those of us who think 
working Americans pay too much tax and those that believe that the 
government can always bleed those so-called selfish taxpayers a little 
bit more.
  Mr. Speaker, today the so-called selfish taxpayers and voters of 
Virginia get to respond to the President. I wonder what they will have 
to say to him.

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