Political Quotes

Dan Burton: “Because the inflation rate got out of control, and Mr. Volcker thought he had to do that to choke off inflation, and…”

On the recordJanuary 11, 1995
Because the inflation rate got out of control, and Mr. Volcker thought he had to do that to choke off inflation, and, when President Reagan came in and cut the top tax rate, which is not talked about very much, we ended up with seeing interest rates going down dramatically along with inflation. So, when we start talking about, and the Democrat minority starts talking about, interest rates being out of control because of our policies, which we are talking about right now, I think we need to look at history and see that the real problem that was created as far as interest rates and inflation last time occurred primarily under Democrat administrations.
Said by
Dan Burton
Indiana

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the impact of tax cuts and inflation rates during a debate.

Share

More from Dan Burton

Jun 26, 2008

I just want to follow up the train of thought that you have. These taxes that they want to put on Big Oil, if there are excessive profits made and there is collusion or something like that, if there is criminal behavior, obviously…

govinfo.gov
Jun 18, 2008

America is a can-do Nation and we need a can-do Congress. And right now, the Congress, and both the House and the Senate, which is controlled by the other party, they have a we-can't-do, we can't do this, we can't do that. As a result…

govinfo.gov
Feb 11, 2009

That is what is taking place already. There is a spike in inflation already, and people are starting to feel it. When you go to the supermarket and you buy a pound of something that you used to pay for a pound, now they're putting the same…

govinfo.gov
Feb 11, 2009

And when we start having inflation like that, the cost of doing business, the cost of buying products, everything goes up, goes right out the window. Now they're talking about putting trillions of dollars back into this economy, and it's…

govinfo.gov

Other voices in this conversation