[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17020]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



              GIVE HARD-WORKING AMERICANS THEIR MONEY BACK

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, is it not ironic that the party who, for 
40 years, ran up the national debt to the tune of $5.4 trillion is now 
hiding behind the national debt and wanting to reduce it as an excuse 
not to vote for tax reduction for working America?
  Is it not ironic that the party who only wanted to preserve 62 
percent of the Social Security surplus is now saying that Republicans 
who wanted to preserve 100 percent of Social Security, now they are 
saying, no, we cannot vote for a tax cut?
  Is it not typical that the party whose President's budget cut 
Medicare $9 billion now is pretending to be the protector of Medicare?
  The fact is they want to repeat their performance of 1993 when they 
passed the largest tax increase in the history of America. They want to 
grow government.
  Let us just think about it this way: if one went into Wal-Mart and 
one bought a pair of flip-flops for $2.50, gave the cashier $5, one 
deserve one's change, right? But if it is a Democrat cashier, they are 
going to keep the money, and they are going to spend it on their 
friends.
  Give working America their money back, and quit holding it and paying 
it out to your Washington bureaucrat buddies.

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