[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 19 (Wednesday, February 3, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H382]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    TAX CUTS--THE MAJOR DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Madam Speaker, it did not take long to find out what 
the major difference between Democrats and Republicans will be in this 
Congress: Tax cuts.
  Republicans propose a 10 percent across-the-board tax cut, which the 
legislation of the gentleman from Ohio (Chairman Kasich) will do; and 
the Democrats, well, you guessed it, general tax relief is nowhere to 
be found. In fact, the President's budget will contain no middle class 
tax relief for another 15 years. And we all know what targeted tax cuts 
are. That is a euphemism for ``you won't be getting one.''
  The current budget surplus, taxpayer overpayment, to be more 
accurate, should go back to the people that it belongs to in the first 
place, the taxpayers.
  April 15 is not far away, and the tax man cometh. The tax man has 
been taking too much for too long, and then wasting too much of that 
for too long. It is time to give the middle class average taxpayers a 
break. It is time for a tax cut.

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