[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17021]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                VOTE FOR DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVE TAX BILL

  (Mr. WISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, today financial irresponsibility does not just 
tiptoe through this Chamber. It does not walk softly; it gallops. It 
runs amok.
  Because what is going to happen is, this House is going to take up a 
tax bill that is the height of fiscal and financial irresponsibility.
  I support paying down the national debt. I support saving Social 
Security. I support saving Medicare and making sure that it is secure. 
Then and only then, giving targeted tax cuts, tax cuts to working 
people, tax cuts for child care, tax cuts that are strictly targeted to 
accomplish certain ends. But, unfortunately, this is not the proposal 
before us. This is a large tax bill that ignores all of that.
  I would just say to those who say we can do this safely over a 10- or 
15-year period, when their investment broker tells them they know what 
the employment is going to be in 2004, do they take that seriously? 
That is about how seriously I take this tax proposal.
  Vote instead for the Democratic alternative that saves Social 
Security, pays down the national debt, and has targeted tax cuts and 
targeted only.

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