[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 166 (Wednesday, October 25, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10752]
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                 TAXES ARE KILLING 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. Mr. Speaker, enough of the rhetoric from the other side. 
We are engaged in a great debate here about the budget, about the issue 
of tax cuts or deficit relief.
  Mr. Speaker, I just heard the minority leader come to this floor and 
say the Republicans were out of touch. He said they ought to take a 
step out and talk to real working Americans.
  Mr. Speaker, he did not know what I did last weekend because last 
weekend I spent hours in front of grocery stores and drug stores in any 
district, and I asked the American people the question my colleagues 
and I are debating, ``Do you need tax relief?'' And their answer, and I 
did this in a working-class neighborhood in my district with real 
people, was that we need tax relief.
  Mr. Speaker, one of them said, ``Taxes are killing the American 
people.''
  Now the other side calls this tax relief for the rich, but that is 
garbage, and they know it. Rich people do not have any more children 
than poor people.
  As young ladies walked up to me with one baby in their arms and 
another dragging along behind them, I asked them, ``Could you use a 
thousand dollars' tax credit?''
  Mr. Speaker, they said to me, ``You bet I could.''
  I ask my colleagues, ``Whose money is it, and who can better spend 
it?'' That side says government can spend it better. I say we can spend 
it better by giving it to the American people.

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