ON RADIO, CLINTON PITCHES NEED FOR SACRIFICE

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, February 7, 1993                   TAG: 9302070156
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Medium
ON RADIO, CLINTON PITCHES NEED FOR SACRIFICE
President Clinton on Saturday used his first White House radio address to brace Americans for his details-to-come economic plan and promise the bulk of the burden will fall on those "at the top of the ladder."
Clinton, apparently setting the stage for proposals to cut spending and raise taxes, said he would "cut the cost of government and get rid of windfalls for the wealthy" before looking to other Americans.
"We're going to ask the most from those who have got the most and gave the least during the past dozen years - those at the top of the ladder," Clinton said in his address from the Oval Office.
"We're going to do everything we can to protect people who are suffering the most from declining incomes and vanishing jobs - the middle class and the working poor."
Echoing populist themes from his presidential campaign, Clinton said the cost-cutting would start at the White House, with cuts in "payrolls and perks and privileges."
"I want to set an example so that I can take the fight to the rest of the government to eliminate unnecessary commissions, to reduce the federal payrolls, to get rid of needless luxuries like posh dining rooms," Clinton said.
The president has promised a 25 percent cut in White House staff, but has not released details on he will achieve that goal.
Clinton presents details of his economic stimulus plan to Congress on Feb. 17 and unveils his first budget on March 23. His goal is to stimulate the economy through increased public works spending and new tax breaks at the same time he makes inroads in the burgeoning federal deficit.
Clinton has pledged to raise income taxes on the wealthiest Americans and is considering other means to raise revenue, including higher energy taxes, tax increases on alcohol and tobacco products, Social Security reforms, limits on deductions for home mortgage interest and stepped-up tax collections on foreign companies operating in the United States.
In a Republican response to Clinton's address, Sen. Connie Mack of Florida said the GOP wants to work cooperatively with the new president but "for the economy to move forward, talk of raising taxes has to stop."
"Higher taxes have never helped the economy and never will," Mack said. "Higher taxes have never produced more jobs and never will."
It was Clinton's first White House radio address and aides said he was likely to make them a regular occurrence.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB