On the recordAugust 1, 1996
Absolutely. What concerns me is that most people do not know or have not been told that during the Reagan years, in which we tried to reduce the size and scope of Government to reduce the tax burden, providing incentives for business creation and capital incentive, that during those years family incomes went up. They went up consistently. I can remember our former colleague, Senator Wirth, teaming up with now-Vice President Gore, coming to the floor and talking about this tragedy that has occurred in America from roughly 1973 to 1992, just talking about from one point to the next point, how incomes had gone down, but refused to tell people that during the Reagan years, those 7 years of growth, that American families were better off and American workers were better off.
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