William C. Baker: “the previous speaker apparently forgot the Bill Clinton tax increase, 4.3 cents in the gas tax. Did he forget that? That…”

“the previous speaker apparently forgot the Bill Clinton tax increase, 4.3 cents in the gas tax. Did he forget that? That is on the working poor. How about taxing Social Security benefits of those people who had sense enough to save with $35,000 a year income each year?--$35,000, a couple, and they tax 85 percent of your Social Security benefits that you paid 16 percent of your payroll in each year of your working life. That is what Clinton has done for you. Mr. Speaker, each day millions of Americans wake up early, get dressed, kiss their families good-bye and go to work. They then spend the next 2 hours 47 minutes working for the Federal Government to pay their taxes. That is more time than they spend working to feed, clothe, and earn money for their family's housing. Mr. Speaker, this is an outrage. When American families are spending more time working for the Government than they do supporting their own families, something is wrong. Americans deserve to keep more, not less of their own income for their own families, and Congress should be doing everything we can to get this Government off their backs.”