the Republican tax plan is not about helping out struggling families. It is about pandering with promises that will destroy our economy if they are kept. Call me cynical, but I do not think Republicans want to give tax credits for children because they believe in family values but because people with kids are likely to vote. Republicans do not want to let large corporations avoid paying taxes because they think it will boost productivity, but because the people who run those companies are big givers to Republican campaigns. Do not be fooled, America. The price of this pandering will be paid by ordinary working families, the very people Republicans claim to be trying to help. Cutting student loans to pay for tax cuts now will make it harder to send their kids to college. Opening tax loopholes for the wealthy and corporations will smother the economy with debt, eroding the living standards of the middle class. Let us cut wasteful spending and balance the budget. But until then, the pandering on tax cuts has got to stop.
On the recordApril 5, 1995
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Criticizing the Republican tax plan and its impact on working families during a floor speech.
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