[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H97]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                            LIBERAL GIVEAWAY

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, A well-known news magazine this week 
called tax cuts a ``giveaway.''
  That illustrates precisely the liberal mind-set of some in the media 
and most in this administration.
  They actually think that the money of hard-working, lawabiding 
taxpayers belongs to the Government, not to the people who earned it.
  Tax cuts mean American families will keep more. Liberals in the media 
and in the administration want the Government to take more and spend 
more.
  Americans now are staggering under the heaviest tax burden in 
history. And the top half of wage earners already pay 95 percent of all 
income taxes.
  The real question is: Who knows best how to spend hard-earned 
dollars--the American people or the Federal Government?

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