[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11925]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                 AMERICAN TAXPAYERS ARE NOT UNDERTAXED

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, every once in a while in politics the truth 
slips out. Sometimes the so-called political pros call it a gaffe. 
Well, we have a perfect example of a gaffe by the leader of the 
Democratic Party in this body in the House, the gentleman from Missouri 
(Mr. Gephardt).
  The gentleman spoke to a group the other day and he said, and I 
quote, ``You've got to have a combination of taking it out of the 
defense budget and raising revenue. We can argue about how to do that, 
closing loopholes or even raising taxes to do it.''
  Well, maybe the other side can argue about how they want to raise 
taxes, but Republicans in this House are arguing about how to cut 
taxes, not raise them. The American people are overtaxed, not 
undertaxed.
  Let us get together and cut taxes across the board on all Americans, 
and let us get rid of this horrible tax, the death tax, where the 
Federal Government can take up to 55 percent of what Americans earn 
during the course of their lives, even though they have been taxed for 
that over and over again over the course of their lives.
  Let us cut taxes, not talk about raising them.

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