On the recordMay 19, 1998
I beg to correct you. It comes from the taxpayers of this country. The tax is on cigarettes and cigarettes are smoked by generally people with incomes of less than $40,000 to $50,000 a year. They are going to pay 70 percent of this tax. We are going to buy Lear jets for attorneys out of the working people of this country because 70 percent of this money we are going to pay to these attorneys comes from people making less than $40,000 a year. And how anybody can justify paying an attorney $100,000-plus an hour, and taking it out of the pockets of people making less than $40,000 a year, I don't know.
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