Roy Blunt: “The other thing to remember here, too, is that as hard as we have worked on that and as much debate as we have had about…”

“The other thing to remember here, too, is that as hard as we have worked on that and as much debate as we have had about the dangers of giving this money back to the American families and the American people, we are only managing to give back in this tax cut a third, one-third, of the dollars that we increased taxes by in 1993, the biggest tax increase in the history of the country. I do not recall nearly this much concern in the Congress about taking three times as much money away from the American people as now we have letting them keep a third of their money. We hear about giving them money, giving them a tax break. We are just again letting them keep their money, and still we have got a long way to go just to get the tax burden, the Federal tax burden back to where it was in 1993. This is the first step, it is a big step, but I just remind people of the country who are thinking about this debate, how much debate did you really hear in 1993 as that big tax bill passed about how much money we were taking away from Americans, or whether we were going to explode the deficit at some mythical point in the future or what was going to happen?”