Mark Neumann: “It sure is frustrating to be in a system where we recognize that those tax dollars that are so important that they get…”

It passed without a single, solitary Republican vote. I am sure the gentleman from Michigan remembers what I am talking about here. It is the biggest tax increase in American history.

We are now in surplus in both the general fund and in the Social Security fund. There is such good news on the economic front here.

Right. Again, I think we have to go back to this understanding that, when people out here talk about cutting spending, they do not actually mean they are cutting spending. They mean, instead of letting the growth rate be double the rate of…

Yes, those deficits that the American people and my colleagues talked about all through the late 1980s and the early 1990s, they took all of that Social Security surplus, they put it all in the big government checkbook, they wrote out…