[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 48 (Tuesday, April 16, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3396]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  WE MUST PROTECT WORKING CLASS AMERICANS FROM ROBBERY BY THE FEDERAL 
                       GOVERNMENT EVERY APRIL 15

  (Mr. SCARBOROUGH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Speaker, I like trees. I think it is a good idea 
that we plant more trees. But let us talk about something serious and 
get beyond partisan bickering. Let us talk about what happened 
yesterday with the tax vote.
  We continue to hear that we are providing tax cuts for the rich, but 
I have to tell the Members, when I hold my town hall meetings, and I 
have held 75 over the past year, it is not people making six figures 
asking for tax cuts, it is working class Americans making $30,000 or 
less who see every 2 weeks when they are working at Wendy's and they 
are working at Wal-Mart and they are carrying two or three jobs, that 
the Federal Government is taking more and more and more of their money.
  We have to do something to protect those working class Americans who 
continue to get robbed by the Federal Government every April 15 and 
every 2 weeks. That is why I was proud to vote the way I did, and that 
is why I was disappointed to hear the rhetoric about all these people 
who are so darned interested in union workers and the working class 
Americans who will not do what they want them to do, and that is to 
give them back more of their money so they can invest in their future, 
their children's education, and put a little bit of money to the side.

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