[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 14 (Thursday, February 1, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1144]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TAX CUTS FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS

  Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, I rise this morning in defense of the 
middle-class tax cuts that the middle class gets. They keep getting 
promised these tax cuts, but they never seem to get them.
  It is a fact that hard-working people in this country are overtaxed. 
The Federal Government continues to rip off hard-working people in 
order to benefit special-interest elites. This Government taxes 
families in my community in Cincinnati so that Hazel O'Leary-types can 
continue to jet around the world on five-star junkets. The Government 
continues to tax people in Cincinnati so that huge corporations can get 
subsidies to advertise their products around the world, advertising 
that they would do anyway. It is an absolute outrage.
  We continue to rip off the American people to give tax subsidies and 
price supports to people who do not need them. Taxes are absolutely too 
high in this country. The special-interest groups and their fellow 
defenders here in Washington will now scream, tax cuts for the rich, 
tax cuts for the rich, but I think the American people know better; 
they know the people in this country are overtaxed.
  We need to cut taxes now.

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