[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 126 (Friday, September 24, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H8632]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  TAXPAYERS HAVE TO WAIT FOR A REPUBLICAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE FOR TAX 
                       RELIEF TO BECOME A REALITY

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the President vetoed the tax 
relief legislation passed by Congress.
  In the face of a $3 trillion budget surplus over the next 10 years, 
the President concluded that there was no room for any of it to go to 
the taxpayers. Liberals everywhere cheered. The taxpayers, on the other 
hand, did no celebrating. Wall Street crashed, the Main Street was told 
that small business would not be getting any help anytime soon.
  Those who are so ardently opposed to tax cuts do not do so because 
they want the money to go towards debt reduction, despite the rhetoric.
  If they were sincere, then they would not be proposing billions and 
billions of dollars in new spending, creating new entitlements, and 
expanding Government programs.
  They oppose tax relief because they want to grow Government. They 
want to spend the money. And they do not want us to spend the money.
  Washington knows best. That is their bedrock principle.
  Taxpayers will just have to wait for a Republican in the White House 
for tax relief to become a reality.

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