[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 4, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4114]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          IT IS TIME TO GIVE BACK MONEY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (Mr. SHADEGG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHADEGG. My colleagues, we are engaged in a great debate, a great 
debate which could only occur inside the beltway. The American people 
have no doubt about tax cuts. To listen to my colleagues on the other 
side, they simply do not get it. There is one fundamental message in 
America today. It is that the Federal Government is too big, it taxes 
too much, it spends too much, and it regulates too much, and the 
American people have no debate about that issue. My opponents, when 
they talk about deficit creation and how this tax cut will create 
deficits, it is shocking. They created this deficit over the past 40 
years, and now they want us to continue to pull an outrageous sum of 
money out of the pockets of the American people to pay for the deficit 
they created. Amazing.
  It is time to give money back to the American people. We have 
increased the tax burden on American families twelvefold since 1950, 
the year I was born. Enough of that outrage. I say to my colleagues, 
``They
 say they know better how to spend your money. I say you, as the 
American people, know how better to spend your money. I call on my 
colleagues to support this tax cut today.''

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