[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 89 (Tuesday, June 22, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H4677]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            REPUBLICANS WANT TO CUT TAXES, NOT INCREASE THEM

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, the Democrats are arguing among themselves 
about which taxes they want to raise, about how to come up with 
additional revenue. Anyone who has any doubt about the truth of this 
statement need merely consult with statements made by the President, 
the House minority leader, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Gephardt), 
and the minority leader in the other body, Tom Daschle.
  The President said this past January, while in Buffalo, New York, 
that he was opposed to giving the surplus back to the American 
taxpayers who produced it because, ``You might not spend it right.'' 
The President thinks that the government knows better how to spend our 
money than the people who earned it.
  The House minority leader stated his vision of expanding the Federal 
education bureaucracy by cutting defense and raising taxes. In fact, he 
said he would be proud to do it.
  And now we have the minority leader in the other body who just this 
past weekend said that tax increases were on the table. Maybe on the 
Democrats' table, but they are not on the Republicans' table. In fact, 
we are debating which taxes to cut.
  Let us reduce the taxes on the people of this Nation.

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