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Dale Bumpers: “I want to relay that to every Senator in the U.S. Senate. I am telling you, if you have the 5 years, if you have the 5…”

On the recordMay 22, 1997
I want to relay that to every Senator in the U.S. Senate. I am telling you, if you have the 5 years, if you have the 5 years you are talking about here, do not assume that the deficit will continue to go down and we will start paying on the national debt, because we have never had prosperity for that length of time. I give you Joseph's admonition: Strike while the iron is hot and while the economy is hot. The Senator from New Mexico said I do not believe in tax cuts. I do not believe in using Medicare for tax cuts from the most vulnerable people in America, our elderly, who go to bed petrified every night fearing what their medical bills might be. I do not believe in using Medicare and I do not believe in tax cuts at the expense of balancing the budget. Every poll I have seen has shown overwhelmingly that people will take a balanced budget to tax cuts, and that is the option.
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Dale Bumpers
Arkansas
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the importance of balancing the budget and the implications of tax cuts during Senate debate.

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