On the recordApril 1, 1993
To those who continue to argue that we should pay for the spending in this bill, by either raising taxes or cutting spending elsewhere, let me say that to pay for a stimulus bill would be to offset its stimulative effect. If, for every dollar we seek to inject into the economy through this bill, we were to turn around and take a dollar out of the economy through higher taxes or lower Government spending, what will we have accomplished? The answer, I warn my colleagues, is nothing.
