John Thune: “when the other side repeated over and over again during the 1996 campaign that the Republicans wanted to cut Medicare…”

“when the other side repeated over and over again during the 1996 campaign that the Republicans wanted to cut Medicare, it was a lie. Many people believed it and so they continued to say it. When the other side repeated over and over again in 1995 that the Republicans wanted to cut the school lunch program, that was a lie. Yet that worked, too, to some degree. Now it is 1998. The other side has already started on another deception that lowering taxes on farmers and ranchers and families would threaten Social Security. That, too, is a lie. How ironic that the party that did nothing, nothing for 40 years to fix a system they knew was going broke, is now attacking our commitment to use 90 percent of the surplus to fix Social Security while giving the remaining 10 percent back to the American people. How is it that billions of dollars in liberal spending do not threaten Social Security but lower taxes for farmers and ranchers somehow would? America's farmers and ranchers need a break, and it is time to give them much-needed tax relief.”