[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 94 (Wednesday, July 15, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H5504]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         DEMOCRATS LOVE TO TAX

  (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, today we have heard liberal after liberal, 
Democrat after Democrat, excuse me, I am being redundant, speak in 
favor of a new $2 billion tax increase. They are so proud of the Gore 
tax. Every time you call your mother, it is going to cost you a little 
bit more. Every time you have a medical emergency, a friend out of 
town, it is going to cost you more. Any time you have a loved one in 
California you want to call from the East Coast, it is going to cost 
you more, and the Democrats are so happy about it.
  Why are they happy about it? Well, for one thing, any tax is a good 
tax. We love all taxes. Another reason they are happy: we did not have 
to vote on it. It got sneaked in by their comrades in the Federal 
bureaucracy who sneaked it in. Not one congressional vote.
  I would say to my liberal colleagues, we know you like taxes. Why do 
we not vote on it? Since you are so proud of tax increases, why not 
bring this matter to the floor so that the Vice President can run on a 
new platform: I increased your phone taxes. I increased it for the poor 
people, I increased it for the old, I increased it for those on fixed 
incomes, and let them brag about it on the House floor.

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