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Jack Kingston: I want to make sure that you understand. You are talking about your child and my child, and any parent out here in…

On the recordMarch 5, 1997
I want to make sure that you understand. You are talking about your child and my child, and any parent out here in America hearing this should pay attention. Children will be having to pay an 80 to 83-percent tax rate just to sustain the current level of goods and services. Now here is a summary of the Clinton budget. I hope that we can get this on camera for the folks back home, but one thing that is interesting is after the administration torpedoed the balanced budget amendment in the Senate, then they said we do not need the amendment to balance the budget. They introduced a bill that they call the balanced budget, and in a year, if the gentleman can read this, I am not sure that he can, but in the year 2002 we would have a deficit of $69 billion. So there is nothing balanced about the Clinton budget.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

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Criticizing the Clinton budget and its implications for future tax rates on children.

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