[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13922]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS

  (Mr. BONNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, if the American people have somehow stumbled 
on to C-SPAN this morning, trying to find either Oprah or Regis, let me 
urge you to set your VCRs because later today you are going to get a 
chance to see the fundamental difference between our side of the aisle 
and the other side of the aisle.
  You see, our friends on the other side have suppressed their appetite 
to raise your taxes long enough, and just like that chain smoker who 
has to go to the drawer and find that little addiction, they are coming 
back to it again today with a proposal to raise your taxes $18.9 
billion.
  This tax increase would not be to go to support our troops in the war 
on terror. It would not be to cut the deficit or to pay town the debt. 
No, it would be to spend more money on social programs to the tune of 
$150 billion over the next decade.
  If you set your VCR and you ever want to know the difference, play it 
over and over again, and if you happen to lose the tape, you can just 
play ``Nightmare on Elm Street'' because that is what this tax hike 
would do to the American people.

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