US Presidency
1992

And then when you add in his other spending proposals, regrettably, you end up socking it to the working man. That old adage that they use, We're going to soak the rich, we're going to soak the rich, it always ends up being the poor cab driver or the working man that ends up paying the bill. And so I just have a different approach. I believe the way to get the deficit down is to control the growth of mandatory spending programs and not raise taxes on the American people. We've got a big difference there. Mr. Lehrer. Mr. Perot, one minute. Mr. Perot. We've got to have a growing, expanding job base to give us a growing, expanding tax base. Right now, we have a flat to-deteriorating job base, and where it appears to be growing is minimum wage jobs. So we've got to really rebuild our job base. That's going to take money for infrastructure and investment to do that. Our foreign competitors are doing it; we're not.