[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16745]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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      WHY ARE TAX CUTS THREAT TO BUDGET, BUT NEW SPENDING IS NOT?

  (Mr. WELDON of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)



  Mr. WELDON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I have a question for the other 
side. It is a simple question, and I guess that I will not get an 
answer, it is so simple.
  My question is this: Why is a tax cut a threat to our balanced budget 
but additional spending is not?
  Whenever the Democrats propose new spending programs, which is just 
about every day Congress is in session, not a word is spoken about what 
that will do to the deficit.
  No mention is made of fiscal discipline or of tough choices that have 
to be made to get our fiscal house in order. But as soon as tax cuts 
are offered by the tax cutting party, that is the Republican Party, of 
course the other side immediately pulls out their half-serious 
arguments about blowing a hole in the deficit and about how Democrats 
have been the party of fiscal discipline all these years. In a word, it 
is nonsense. Spending good; tax cuts bad. That is their world view, and 
their rhetoric reflects it.
  So, again, I ask the question: Why are tax cuts a so-called threat to 
our balanced budget, but new spending is not?

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