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Mark Neumann: I sincerely hope that the American people will pay attention to this particular situation and to the party that is going…

On the recordApril 23, 1998
I sincerely hope that the American people will pay attention to this particular situation and to the party that is going on over there at the White House tonight, and I really mean this sincerely. I think every American citizen who believes higher taxes is the right way to solve the economic problems facing our country, and there are some out there, they should all vote for the Democrat ticket in the fall of this year. I think everybody who believes that we should control Washington spending, they should be voting for the Republican ticket; that believe that taxes are already too high, taxes should come down, we should get spending under control so we can restore Social Security, start paying down the Federal debt, that $5.5 trillion debt that our colleague from Mississippi so eloquently talked about before, the people that believe that controlling Washington spending is the right way to restore Social Security, pay down the debt and get the tax rate under control, those folks should be voting on the Republican ticket. The people that believe higher taxes is the right answer to do the same things, they ought to be voting Democrat.
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Mark Neumann
Wisconsin

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Discussing tax policy and party alignment during a speech on the House floor.

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