Reclaiming my time just for a minute, I am sure after the impassioned speeches we heard this evening basically condemning Republicans for even proposing a tax cut idea because it uses Social Security money, I am sure everyone listening and all of their colleagues on their side will understand that new spending is money coming out of Social Security, too
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I think that the gentleman and I agree that as we end up 1998 and as we prepare for 1999, the last thing this Congress ought to be doing is a 90 billion spending plan.
I think the gentleman got agreement, but I am not sure it is what he and I agree with, that the tax burden is too high, that when the American people between the local, State and Federal government taxes are working Monday and Tuesday for…
I think some of our other colleagues are saying if we are going to spend this 18 billion this year we ought to find offsets, but the worst case scenario would be that in the next 3 or 4 weeks we do an 80 billion to 90 billion spending…
the gentleman from Wisconsin, and in that dialogue I really felt that there was one point that was missing, and the gentleman was just talking about it.
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