[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 81 (Tuesday, May 16, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4960]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                  WE HAVE TO MAKE RESPONSIBLE CHOICES

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of May 
12, 1995, the gentleman from Arizona [Mr. Hayworth] is recognized 
during morning business for 3 minutes.
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to the 
words of my colleague from Colorado, and would propose to offer to the 
American people, Mr. Speaker, that we see another sterling, yes, even a 
textbook example of why there is a new minority in the Congress of the 
United States on that side of the aisle. It is fascinating to listen to 
this almost instant revisionism of history, socialism for the wealthy.
  Well, that is a very interesting point of view, and I guess in terms 
of playground name calling, that certainly may have some validity in a 
nonsensical sort of way. One analog that does pertain, however, is the 
notion of the American family being put into a cage. The American 
family has been enslaved, but it has been enslaved by those proponents 
of big Government who believe that always there must be tax increases, 
that always people need to take out their wallets and give more and 
more money to Washington. And the facts speak for themselves.
  Mr. Speaker, it is a well-known fact that in 1948 the average 
American family sent 3 percent of its income, the average American 
family of four paid 3 percent of its income in taxes to the Federal 
Government. And yet by 1994, on the heels of the largest tax increase 
in American history, the average American family paid 24.5 percent of 
its income in taxes to the Federal Government. And this was not class 
warfare, this is virtually everybody, with a quantum leap in what they 
had to pay to the Federal Government. And now, fresh on the heels of a 
nonsensical, dishonest school lunch scare program, the new minority, 
the guardians of the old order, are trying to scare seniors and 
students.
  The fact is that we are not taking away student loans of the new 
majority, but it is also the fact if we do nothing, if we allow the 
status quo to persist, there may not be university systems, there may 
not be a constitutional Republic in 5 to 10 years to have a worthy 
educational system to begin with.
  To those who would always use the scare tactics about school lunches 
and claim cuts when there are increases, let me simply say this: The 
fact is we have to make responsible choices. The fact is that even in 
increasing funding or changing the method of supplying funding to give 
the money to people on the front lines, we are transforming what is 
done. We are making programs more effective to ensure that we may save 
them. And no clearer tactic or example can we see than in the realm of 
Medicare, where in fact my colleague, the preceding speaker, the 
gentlewoman from Colorado, tried to scare seniors and claim there are 
cuts.
  Friends, we are making rash on America reasonable increases to save 
the Medicare Program. We are not making cuts. That is what we must do: 
make responsible choices, not come in and carp and complain and hope 
against hope that somehow in November 1996, the voters of America will 
return to a bankrupt policy of always and constant growth of 
Government.

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