[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17461]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   NEW HEALTH CARE WILL COST AN ARM, A LEG, AND A WHOLE LOT OF TAXES

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, the people of this country want 
to know how we're going to pay for this health care plan that the 
Democrat majority is going to put forth.
  Last week, on ``Fox News Sunday,'' Mr. Wallace asked this question of 
Congressman Hoyer, the majority leader, he said, How are you going to 
pay for it specifically? What taxes are you willing to raise, and are 
you going to tax health care benefits? And Mr. Hoyer said, ``Well, I'm 
not going to go into--that's a proposal on the table in the Senate, not 
in the House, as you know. The pay-fors are going to be tough. Nobody 
wants to pay for what we're buying. And very frankly, our financial 
status in America has gone down.'' In other words, he didn't want to 
tell how the American people were going to have to pay for that 
program.
  And then the President of the United States, at his town meeting last 
week, said, Now, one-third of it we're going to pay for by increased 
revenues--that's increased taxes--and the cost will be between $1 
trillion and $3 trillion, probably closer to $3 trillion. So he's 
saying they're going to have to raise at least $1 trillion in new 
taxes.
  And then he went on to say about two-thirds of it would come from 
reallocating money that's currently in the system. Now, where in the 
world are they going to get $2 trillion out of other programs to pay 
for the extra two-thirds?
  The people of this country are being hoodwinked. This health care 
program they're talking about, this socialized medicine, is going to 
cost an arm, a leg, a lot of taxes, and inflation because they're going 
to spend money we do not have.

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