Summary

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 270202
Story Slug Tom Daschle / 100 days (1995)
Location WASHINGTON, DC
Format TVD
Date 4/5/1995
Archive Time 11:36
TRT 2:08
Script (SUGGESTED TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO) Unknown Speaker 00:00 They will, and a little of price for that one and that's at the end of April on the 27th. So you can see the staff. It Unknown Speaker 00:06 is fitting it was PT Barnum, who after all wrote the fine print and America's in the Republicans Contract with America. Every suck a sucker is born every minute. And I think almost as entertaining as the circus was the debate leading up to it was just as entertaining on Monday evening, if you were watching C span, one of our Republican colleagues introduced an amendment and I'm not kidding about this to bar elephants from the Capitol. Well, that's one Republican amendment I wholeheartedly support. Even now, polls show that the more people hear about the contract, the more nervous they get. And for good reason. To paraphrase Pogo, we've met the enemy and the Republicans contract. And it is us. It's not the big money, special interests, the contract targets. Heck, the Republicans have even invited many lobbyists into their offices to rewrite the very laws they were supposed to influence. The enemy in the Republican contract isn't even the infamous waste, fraud and abuse. It's working families, the children of working families, they can wrap it up in New spinmeister packaging. But the struggle at the center of the contract is the same struggle that is defined the difference between Democratic and Republican parties for generations. It's a struggle between the rich and the rest of us. Republicans were on the wrong side of that struggle before and they are on the wrong side of that struggle. Now. The new Republican agenda is worse than indifferent to the needs of working families. It's downright hostile to them. It's trickle down economics with a vengeance. And if it's enacted, it will destroy much of the middle class. If you don't doubt it, just look at some of the tax changes. Republicans are proposing a capital gains tax that will provide more than 70% of its benefits to people making more than $150,000
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