Martin Hoke: “yet again the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is insistent on the need to raise taxes. This time, the…”

“yet again the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is insistent on the need to raise taxes. This time, the Democrats' reason du jour is health care reform. In order to fund the President's massive new 98,000 person health bureaucracy and plug up what he has called ``a $40 billion hole'' in the President's projections, Chairman Rostenkowski says we have absolutely got to raise new broad-based taxes on the American people. More taxes. That is on top of President Clinton's record-breaking income tax hikes. That is in addition to President Clinton's gasoline tax hike. That is beyond the new Social Security taxes that the Democrats have imposed on the elderly. And let us not forget the new estate taxes that President Clinton imposed retroactively on dead people. Madam Speaker, there is just no end to the majority party's insatiable appetite for more and more taxes on more and more Americans. The Democrats may want to consider this modest proposal as an alternative to their endless taxing and spending: Stop spending so much money that you do not have.”