Todd Tiahrt: “the liberals are making false and misleading arguments in their opposition to the Republican tax cut proposal. Every…”

“the liberals are making false and misleading arguments in their opposition to the Republican tax cut proposal. Every time we hear the other side accuse Republicans of raiding the Social Security Trust Fund or stealing from the Social Security Trust Fund, they are deliberately misrepresenting the truth in order to oppose tax cuts. Just consider this. The liberals never accuse anyone of raiding the Social Security Trust Fund whenever it comes to spending. In fact, they have proposed billions and billions of new spending without a single thought about Social Security. It is only when Republicans want to pass tax cuts that they use a bogus argument about Social Security in order to scare seniors, just like they did for 2 years about Medicare. Mr. Speaker, the fact is, liberals simply oppose tax cuts. The American people should know the truth. Under their definition, all spending is a raid on the Social Security Trust Fund: education, welfare, the big bureaucracy here in Washington. But now we do have a surplus and I think, yes, we do need to save Social Security with 90 percent of the surplus. But any surplus over that should go to hard-working Americans in the form of tax relief.”