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10-31-2006, 11:27 PM
Charlie Rangel in His Own Words:
“Rangel’s accession to the chairmanship of the committee would likely end six years of tax cuts by the Republican-controlled Congress. He said he ‘cannot think of one’ of President George W. Bush’s first-term tax cuts that merit renewal.”—Bloomberg Sept. 20, 2006
“President Bush and Republican campaign committees have attacked Democrats with a claim that we would raise taxes if elected to a majority in Congress. That’s not true.”—Wall Street Journal, Oct. 11, 2006
“There is a class system building up in this country. This tax cut has a negative impact on lower-income people when you take into account inflation and Social Security.”—Associated Press, June 11, 1981
“Since we are going to raise taxes anyway,” he argued, “let’s do it in the fairest possible way, simplification, a flat tax.”—National Journal, Feb. 2, 1985
“Isn’t [President Reagan] deceiving himself and the nation as a whole when he insists on revenue neutrality? He has reduced our taxes without spurring the economy. He has shifted the national priority away from people’s needs into his ever-growing concept of military needs.’’—Universal Press International, Aug. 23, 1986
“The time has come for the President and the Congress to face the responsibility of this deficit, not only in terms of reduction of federal spending, but also in raising the revenues necessary to reach this objective.”—Universal Press International, Aug. 23, 1986
“There’s only one way to cut the deficit, you know it and I know it, and that is raise taxes and cut spending.”—CNN’s “Crossfire,”May 20, 1993
“Since members of minority groups disproportionately constitute the lower-income brackets, the congressman [Rep. Charlie Rangel] said, they stand to lose the most from Mr. Bush’s efforts [to reform Social Security]—which the congressman labeled a ‘fraud’ and an ‘impeachable offense.’”—New York Sun, April 15, 2005
“You take Islamic and you call them fascists, you call them radical. You never called Hitler a Christian fascist. This is insulting to an entire religion.” —MSNBC’s “Hardball,” August 11, 2006
“Can we believe that just because you’re Republican that you don’t want to help the working poor?”—Congressional Record, May 27, 1993
“I say it’s time for government not to depend on the private sector to help people who are unemployed and need job training, but to come in as a government and not to let people down, and to use this as a dressing once we get back our health.” —”The MacNeil/Lehrer Report,” Jan. 14, 1982
“Madam first lady [Hillary Clinton], if I had more than two minutes I would spend more time congratulating you and the President for having brought this issue [of socialized medicine] to where it is.”—House Ways and Means Committee, Sept. 28, 1993
Charlie Rangel: The Man Who Would Write Our Tax Laws (http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17534)
“Rangel’s accession to the chairmanship of the committee would likely end six years of tax cuts by the Republican-controlled Congress. He said he ‘cannot think of one’ of President George W. Bush’s first-term tax cuts that merit renewal.”—Bloomberg Sept. 20, 2006
“President Bush and Republican campaign committees have attacked Democrats with a claim that we would raise taxes if elected to a majority in Congress. That’s not true.”—Wall Street Journal, Oct. 11, 2006
“There is a class system building up in this country. This tax cut has a negative impact on lower-income people when you take into account inflation and Social Security.”—Associated Press, June 11, 1981
“Since we are going to raise taxes anyway,” he argued, “let’s do it in the fairest possible way, simplification, a flat tax.”—National Journal, Feb. 2, 1985
“Isn’t [President Reagan] deceiving himself and the nation as a whole when he insists on revenue neutrality? He has reduced our taxes without spurring the economy. He has shifted the national priority away from people’s needs into his ever-growing concept of military needs.’’—Universal Press International, Aug. 23, 1986
“The time has come for the President and the Congress to face the responsibility of this deficit, not only in terms of reduction of federal spending, but also in raising the revenues necessary to reach this objective.”—Universal Press International, Aug. 23, 1986
“There’s only one way to cut the deficit, you know it and I know it, and that is raise taxes and cut spending.”—CNN’s “Crossfire,”May 20, 1993
“Since members of minority groups disproportionately constitute the lower-income brackets, the congressman [Rep. Charlie Rangel] said, they stand to lose the most from Mr. Bush’s efforts [to reform Social Security]—which the congressman labeled a ‘fraud’ and an ‘impeachable offense.’”—New York Sun, April 15, 2005
“You take Islamic and you call them fascists, you call them radical. You never called Hitler a Christian fascist. This is insulting to an entire religion.” —MSNBC’s “Hardball,” August 11, 2006
“Can we believe that just because you’re Republican that you don’t want to help the working poor?”—Congressional Record, May 27, 1993
“I say it’s time for government not to depend on the private sector to help people who are unemployed and need job training, but to come in as a government and not to let people down, and to use this as a dressing once we get back our health.” —”The MacNeil/Lehrer Report,” Jan. 14, 1982
“Madam first lady [Hillary Clinton], if I had more than two minutes I would spend more time congratulating you and the President for having brought this issue [of socialized medicine] to where it is.”—House Ways and Means Committee, Sept. 28, 1993
Charlie Rangel: The Man Who Would Write Our Tax Laws (http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17534)