On the recordMay 17, 2006
I will not support a budget plan that makes the overall budget deficit worse while providing further tax cuts for people who need them the least. The Republicans not only borrow the cost of their war, they refuse to honestly account for these costs by handling appropriations through emergency spending bills instead of the regular budget process. Playing politics with the budget short changes our future while creating an unsustainable mountain of debt. Refusing to provide permanent relief to tens of thousands of Oregonians threatened by the Alternative Minimum Tax, only providing a one year ``fix'' to the AMT, gambles with middle-class families' futures. It is time for Congress to face up to the fiscal problems that they have created and deal honestly with American taxpayers about the budgeting sleight of hand and deficits. This budget doesn't begin to do this.
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