Jerry Moran: “I do not think any President could in good conscience, knowing that it…”

On the recordJanuary 4, 1996

I do not think any President could in good conscience, knowing that it only takes $90 billion to make the Medicare Program solvent, cut the Medicare Program by $270 billion so that you can take $180 billion and pay it out in tax cut for the most affluent Americans. In my State of Virginia, only 3.7 percent of the entire population of the State of Virginia would get the majority of those tax breaks. Now, they may all live in my district, but the point is, even so, it is wrong, and we do not want him to accept such a substantial cut in a high-priority national program in order to make the kinds of tax cuts that put us in this situation in the first place. If it were not for those tax cuts in 1981, we would be in a surplus today, and, in fact, we probably would not even have a Federal debt.

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Jerry Moran

Republican · Kansas

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of tax cuts and Medicare funding during a debate on the government shutdown.

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Jerry Moran: “I do not think any President could in good conscience, knowing that it only takes $90 billion to make the Medicare…”

Editor's note · Context