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Bill Clinton: We've got to look at all--the important thing to me is, if you do that, then you have to give up the retirement savings.…

On the recordJuly 6, 1999
We've got to look at all--the important thing to me is, if you do that, then you have to give up the retirement savings. And so I'll say again, let's do first things first. Let's figure it out. The way to do this is, before you decide what kind of tax cuts you want, is to figure out how much money have you really got for it, and then you can talk about what the best way to do it is. Budget Caps Mr. Brownstein. And how much have you really got--Bob Greenstein's group put out a study last week, which the Post immediately picked up an editorial, arguing that this big surplus number is premised on maintaining the caps on discretionary spending, which----
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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