[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 23106]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



   A TAX CUT IS POSSIBLE WITHOUT SPENDING THE SOCIAL SECURITY SURPLUS

  (Mr. LEWIS of Kentucky asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEWIS of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, we may have heard the recent 
propaganda coming out of the White House and from the liberal tax-and-
spend Democrats here in the House. The word is that a tax cut would 
take money from Social Security and from paying down the debt. The 
truth is the tax cut that the President vetoed would have allowed the 
American people to keep $792 billion of their money over the next 10 
years. It would have not touched Social Security. It would pay down the 
debt by $2.2 trillion.
  The truth is, as the former speaker said, for 40 years, a liberal 
tax-and-spend Democrat Congress spent the Social Security trust fund 
money as fast as they could on every big government program they could 
think of.

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  To hear them today say that they want to pay down the debt, that they 
want to save Social Security, is an absolute joke. They never have; 
they never will. What they want the money for is to spend, and to spend 
it on bigger and more intrusive government.

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