[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 52 (Tuesday, March 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3338]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          STOP PICKING ON KIDS

  (Mr. WYNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WYNN. Mr. Speaker, I come to deliver a message from our luncheon 
on Sunday: Stop picking on kids.
  Little 10-year-old Touissant Clemmens probably said it best, 
``Children have to say no to a lot of things. Food should not be one of 
them.''
  Mr. Speaker, I cannot for the life of me understand why we are 
cutting $6 billion out of the School Lunch Program to provide tax 
breaks for the wealthy. I cannot understand why we are trying to 
replace a Federal bureaucracy with 50 State bureaucracies, and why that 
is a better idea. I cannot understand why we are eliminating national 
nutrition standards.
  Does someone want to go back to calling catsup a vegetable?
  I am concerned, because these cuts are going to finance tax breaks 
for the wealthy. Fifty percent of the tax breaks go to families making 
over $100,000, like Congressmen. I do not think we need a tax break.
  Five hundred dollars per child for people making up to $200,000? I do 
not understand why. Twenty percent of the tax cuts go to the wealthiest 
2 percent of the people in this country.
  Mr. Speaker, you like to talk about the average American. Well, I 
will tell you, when the average American citizen figures out we are 
taking money out of the mouths of children to pay for tax breaks for 
the wealthy, I think they are going to resent it. I think they are 
going to resent it all the way to the 1996 elections.

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