On the recordOctober 22, 1997
I thank the Senator for that because, so far, we have not been sure what we were dealing with. But now we know. I say this to the Senator. I ask the Senator, I listened to the statements on the floor here from the Senator from Texas and others, and there has been a lot of talk about truth in taxes and how wicked it was that this 4.3 cents has not gone for highways, and that it was deceptive to the American motoring public that when this tax was levied, it was levied on the basis that it would be used for bridges, highways, and so forth. Yet, I ask the Senator, was it not true when that tax was enacted, the 4.3-cent additional gasoline tax, in 1993, it was crystal clear to everybody that that was a deficit reduction; am I correct in that?
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