[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 2795-2796]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                    AGAINST THE PRESIDENT'S TAX CUT

  (Mr. ROEMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROEMER. Madam Speaker, I rise to discuss what the American people 
need and want and that is fair tax cuts based upon a real surplus. I 
disagree with the President's proposal that he has laid before us that 
is based on a Ouija board prediction, a crystal ball and a magic wand. 
We do not know if these surpluses are going to materialize. As a matter 
of fact, from our State in Indiana, we used to have a surplus 2 years 
ago. It is gone. We do not know if this Federal surplus is going to be 
there in 2 years, let alone 10. Yet the 
President's proposal asks for $1.6 trillion in tax cuts. Let us make 
sure it is something the American people get and we do not pull the rug 
out from underneath them in 3 years.
  Secondly, it should be fair, targeted at people making $80,000 and 
$70,000 a

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year, not $800,000 and $900,000 a year. I hope the President, as he has 
said to Democrats throughout the last 2 months about the spirit of 
bipartisanship and asking us to come down and meet with him at the 
White House, that he would now practice bipartisanship and, beyond the 
spirit of bipartisanship, work with us for a fair tax cut and one that 
is based on real surpluses.

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