Roscoe Bartlett: “More than 20 times as much. And our country is not 20 times bigger. Our needs are not 20 times bigger. What has happened…”

“More than 20 times as much. And our country is not 20 times bigger. Our needs are not 20 times bigger. What has happened to us since those Eisenhower years when we were spending less than $100 billion and we are now spending 20 times that amount of money? We really need to stop and take a long look at where we are and where we are going, and we cannot continue to have this kind of a debt increase. We cannot continue to have this kind of an increasing debt that we are passing on to our children and our grandchildren. We are a rich country, but there is a limit to what we can do; and I really would like to see tax day moved to the day before election. There was an interesting little song several years ago, ``We'll remember in November, when I go in that booth, I'm going to vote for anyone but you,'' and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Smith) may have noted that tax day is about as far on the other side of the calendar as they can get it from election day, is it not? Not very many people remember from April 15 clear around to November, but if it was the day before election, almost everybody has a memory that long; and I think a lot more people would vote and they would vote very differently, and I think we would quickly come to grips with this budgetary problem in our country.”