Ed Whitfield: “a few weeks ago this House passed a modest tax reduction for hard working middle class Americans. President Clinton and…”

“a few weeks ago this House passed a modest tax reduction for hard working middle class Americans. President Clinton and the Democratic leadership vigorously opposed the tax reduction. They said they opposed it because they incorrectly, I might say, claimed it would take money from Social Security. However, in the last minute back room negotiations on the omnibus appropriation bill, the President and Democratic leadership are not expressing any concern for Social Security. Instead they want to spend billions more of taxpayer dollars for foreign aid, for their favorite environmental programs and for the education bureaucracy in Washington while we want to send it to local school boards. The President does not want to give the American taxpayers a small tax reduction. Instead he wants to keep the tax dollars in the government and let them spend money on programs he wants. Once again the President and Democrat leadership say one thing in public but they demand something entirely different in private negotiations.”