[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 125 (Friday, September 18, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H8079]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 REDUCE THE BURDEN ON AMERICAN FAMILIES

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, the cog wheel of liberal logic has just a 
few teeth missing. It seems that my Democratic colleagues on the other 
side of the aisle are complaining because Republicans want to use one 
thin dime of each dollar of the budget surplus to reduce the burden on 
hard working middle class taxpayers.
  Of course the liberal Democrats whine and complain because this means 
they cannot spend money to grow a more expensive, more intrusive 
Federal bureaucracy. Well because this is not salable to the American 
public, their latest claim is that they want to use the entire surplus 
to save Social Security.
  Mr. Speaker, it is these very same liberals who are the reason Social 
Security is going bankrupt. They are the ones that continually borrowed 
from the trust fund to promote their dying social agendas, only to 
replace the money with their favorite three letters, IOU.
  Let us allow hard-working Americans to keep some of the money they 
have earned. Let us allow a couple to marry without being punished by 
the IRS. Let us allow the self-employed to finally afford health 
insurance by deducting 100 percent of the cost. Let us support our 
children, our families, our marriages. Let us support America's future.
  Mr. Speaker, we can do all this and still save Social Security. No 
longer is it IOU, but it is our commitment to the future.

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