Cliff Stearns: “Let me give an analogy on this debate. Let us say you are overweight by 100 pounds. You are trying to lose weight over a…”

“Let me give an analogy on this debate. Let us say you are overweight by 100 pounds. You are trying to lose weight over a 7-year period. Would you take a plan where in the first 2 years you gain 100 pounds and then in the next 2 years you try to lose it, then in the final year you really make an effort to reduce that 100 pounds? Of course not, it will not work. This same principle is applying to the Clinton budget. The President's budget is such that the largest spending reductions are in the 7th year. Also under the President's budget, deficits go up in the early years. We certainly do not need that, either. How many of this floor remember what the President said in 1993 about his tax increase? He said, ``You might think I raised your taxes too much. Well, it might surprise you to know that I think I raised your taxes too much too.'' And in fact his tax increase was the largest of the 19 increases we have had on this floor since 1981. Isn't it time that after 15 years we should have one single tax cut? We should not have to wait another 17 years.”