On the recordMarch 6, 1996
It is even worse than that, I would say to the gentleman. The revenue increases always happen. The spending cuts, reductions, never happen. There had never been a cut in Federal spending in the last 15 years. The Federal Government has consistently spent more money each year than it did in the prior year. All of the talk about spending cuts or spending reductions was part of the hypothetical wherein you created an artificial level of increase, then said you were going to reduce the artificial increase, but you did not tell people that you were not cutting, you were still increasing spending.
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