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Pete Stark: And then after that, under the Republican bill, do we not have deficits that just zoom right down to below zero? There…

On the recordJuly 31, 1997
And then after that, under the Republican bill, do we not have deficits that just zoom right down to below zero? There is no question, Mr. Speaker, that ultimately the deficit will go back up again because of these tax breaks. If we had let the situation alone, the situation that was created in 1993 by the tax bill which we passed, and incidentally, people stand out here and say we are making all these great tax cuts. They have not changed in this bill one single provision from 1993. The bill that set us on the path that has gotten us in the good situation we are in today so we can talk about tax breaks, not a single provision of that has been repealed.
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Pete Stark
California

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Discussing the impact of tax cuts and deficits during a debate on a Republican bill.

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