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Gilbert Gutknecht: And the other point that our colleagues sometimes make is they say you are cutting Medicare to offer tax cuts to the…

On the recordJuly 30, 1996
And the other point that our colleagues sometimes make is they say you are cutting Medicare to offer tax cuts to the rich. And I will tell you, that is one charge that absolutely makes me furious. But they know, we know, and I think everyone in this body knows that that is a separate trust fund and it is completely divorced from whatever happens on the other side of the budget. We cannot use changes in the Medicare system to fund a tax cut. That is absolutely false. And they know it is false because it is a trust fund, and nothing that we do on the other side of the budget can be used to alter the Medicare trust fund. And that really disturbs me when people say that because they absolutely know that that is not true.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota

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Addressing claims about Medicare cuts being used to fund tax cuts during a budget debate.

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