On the recordMay 8, 1996
Yes, there are two promises here. First, the President said he would lower taxes on the middle-class as part of the campaign of 1992. That was substantially reversed. Instead of lowering the economic pressure on America and America's working families, he reversed it and increased the economic pressure with a historic tax increase of which the gas tax is a significant piece. Second, he said during the same campaign that a gas tax was regressive and would be particularly harmful on the poor and the elderly and should not be imposed, and then reversed that and imposed a new gas tax. So the debate is about reversing something the President imposed on the country through his leadership in the Congress, and more importantly, reminds us of a promise that was made that was not kept, which is what the Senator from Florida has alluded to.
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