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Joe Scarborough: I do not know what it is, maybe it is the summer heat, maybe it is the 50th anniversary of Roswell, but the Democrats…

On the recordJune 26, 1997
I do not know what it is, maybe it is the summer heat, maybe it is the 50th anniversary of Roswell, but the Democrats, the liberals, actually the radicals that control this party are crawling out from underneath their rocks and once again showing why they were voted out in 1994. Here we have people that increase the crushing tax burden on the American family from 10 percent when they gain control to something like 50.2 percent, according to NTU, in 1994, lecturing us on taxes. They gave us the highest tax increase in the history of this country a few years ago, and yet they are still talking about how if we actually give tax relief to Americans, that it is going to crush the poor children 5 miles from the Capitol. I think they have got it backward. The children 5 miles from the Capitol that are suffering are suffering because of higher taxes and bigger Government spending and more regulations that they are going to shove down the American people's throats this summer. I think if they talk about the problems in south central L.A. or in Chicago, it is because government has failed, the big taxing and big spending policies have failed. Let me challenge every one of these big spenders, every one of these people that have supported taxes over the years, to stand up and tell us how much they care about the children 5 miles from this Capitol when the delegate from Washington, DC begged for tax relief.
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Joe Scarborough
Florida

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Criticizing Democrats for their tax policies and government spending during a floor speech.

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