[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 113 (Thursday, July 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6919]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                           ROLE MODEL ECONOMY

  (Mr. DICKEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. DICKEY. Mr. Speaker, $245 million; that is what the tax cut is 
proposed right now. People are saying, ``What about spending cuts 
first? Part of this is being overlooked.'' One way that we can have 
spending cuts in our Government is to starve the agencies that are 
overspending at this time. So, we are looking at shrinking the 
Government by reducing the taxes. That is No. 1.
  No. 2 is that we are going to give back to the taxpayers the money 
that they have earned. We have too long gone with the idea that this 
money that comes up here is the Government's. It is ours. It is the 
bureaucrats'. It is the politicians'.
  It is not. It is the people who earn it, and those people who earn it 
are entitled to spend it, and, if we give it back to them, they will 
spend it the way they want to, or they can save it. We, as a 
government, are not saving anything. We have a chance to give it back 
to the people. We have a chance to say, ``You've earned it, and you 
could do what you want to with it. It will help the economy.''
  One other thing:
  When we sit here and say we are going to discriminate against the 
rich and we do not want to have a tax cut because it will help the 
rich, it is avoiding an opportunity to have a role model for those 
people who want to acquire more.


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