Political Quotes

“the Senator from Louisiana keeps bringing up the point about the Federal Government contributing 100 percent, not having the benefit of any savings. I just suggest to you that if what we want to accomplish here is savings in the welfare system, the 90-percent maintenance effort will do more to reduce those savings than anything we have seen produced. The fact of the matter is, yes, his amendment may be scored as a reduction in Federal outlays. But I suggest, Mr. President, if you went back to the Congressional Budget Office and said, ``What would be the increase in State spending as a result of this amendment,'' you would see that it would be more than offset in the reductions in Federal spending. What does that mean? That means from the average taxpayer who does not care whether the money is being spent on the Federal level or State level, they are going to pay more for welfare. That is the bottom line here. It is not how much the Federal Government saves, or how much the State government saves, or how much we spend and they spend, but how much the taxpayers spend on the program. I think what your amendment will do is net result in higher welfare expenditures. Sure, they will have to pay more State taxes or more money to the State than the Federal if we equal them out dollar for dollar in taxes. The fact of the matter is your amendment will cause States to spend even more money than what we save on the Federal side. I think that is clear.…”