Dale Bumpers: “There is always a big constituency for tax cuts and I have never known a Member of Congress to lose a vote by voting for…”

“There is always a big constituency for tax cuts and I have never known a Member of Congress to lose a vote by voting for a tax cut. We lost a lot of good men and women in 1993 because they voted for a tax increase, which has reduced the deficit from $300 billion to an anticipated $40 billion this year. But they are not here. They honored what they thought was a demand by the American people for a balanced budget, clearly within our grasp. But, you see, there is a big constituency for tax cuts. There is always a big constituency for spending. There is no constituency for a balanced budget. There are those who have looked forward to that, as I have, for 22 rac{1}{2} years. There are two things that I think would reinstill confidence in the American people in the congressional system and in our democratic system, in our very political system. The two things that would do more than anything to build confidence in America would be to balance the budget, and, No. 2, to change the way we finance campaigns.”