Pete Domenici: “I want to read this paragraph in yellow, and I want to speak to Vice President Gore's constant harping about the 1…”

“I want to read this paragraph in yellow, and I want to speak to Vice President Gore's constant harping about the 1 percent of the American taxpayers getting too much of a tax break. I would like to do that for about 10 or 12 minutes. But first, let me suggest to the middle-class American people who have been waiting for a tax cut that if you elect Vice President Gore, you can wait perhaps forever because, as this editorial says, he might say over and over and over--maybe as many times as he said ``1 percent'' the other night--that he is for middle-income Americans getting a tax break. But this is the Washington Post--not the Washington Times or the Albuquerque Journal--that says: If Mr. Gore believes middle-class people need a tax break, he might better give them one--and let them decide how to spend the money. If he believes the Government should do more to promote education, he could do so more effectively with truly targeted spending programs rather than with tax credits that, for example, go to those who could and would pay for tuition in any case along with those who need the help. But for political reasons, the Democrats, as in 1992 and 1996, believe they need to cloak their programs in the language and form of tax cuts. One result would be an ever more complex Tax Code.”