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Mark Neumann: I couldn't agree more. Going on with this dream, we talked about a debt-free America for our children and how wonderful…

On the recordMarch 10, 1998
I couldn't agree more. Going on with this dream, we talked about a debt-free America for our children and how wonderful it would be if when they had their kids, that they didn't have to pay $580 a month to pay interest on the Federal debt. We talked about restoring the Social Security Trust Fund. And I think it is important that we have this dream that our senior citizens can again get up in the morning and not worry about whether Social Security is going to be there; and the dream of reducing the tax rates from 37 percent down to 25 percent, that is 37 cents out of every dollar is going to Government, to down to less than 25 cents, a one-third reduction. And we have this dream about restoring our education system so that we are, once again, the number one education system in the entire world, not two, not three, not four. That is not our target. Our target is set, number one. And we do that by restoring the control of the education system back to the parents and the teachers and the community. I want to continue with this dream for the future of our country. I want to dream of a drug-free America. I do not want to dream of a America that has 400,000 or only 400,000 on drugs at the eighth grade level. I want to dream of an America where we eliminate drugs. I want to declare war on drugs in this country.
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Mark Neumann
Wisconsin

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Discussing visions for a debt-free America, education reform, and a drug-free society.

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