[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 129 (Thursday, September 24, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H8538]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   DEMOCRATS ATTEMPT TO SCARE SENIORS

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, the liberals are making false and misleading 
arguments in their opposition to the Republican tax cut proposal. Every 
time we hear the other side accuse Republicans of raiding the Social 
Security Trust Fund or stealing from the Social Security Trust Fund, 
they are deliberately misrepresenting the truth in order to oppose tax 
cuts.
  Just consider this. The liberals never accuse anyone of raiding the 
Social Security Trust Fund whenever it comes to spending. In fact, they 
have proposed billions and billions of new spending without a single 
thought about Social Security.
  It is only when Republicans want to pass tax cuts that they use a 
bogus argument about Social Security in order to scare seniors, just 
like they did for 2 years about Medicare.
  Mr. Speaker, the fact is, liberals simply oppose tax cuts. The 
American people should know the truth. Under their definition, all 
spending is a raid on the Social Security Trust Fund: education, 
welfare, the big bureaucracy here in Washington.
  But now we do have a surplus and I think, yes, we do need to save 
Social Security with 90 percent of the surplus. But any surplus over 
that should go to hard-working Americans in the form of tax relief.

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