[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 73 (Wednesday, May 22, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5384]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          INCREASE IN MINIMUM WAGE SHACKLES JOB OPPORTUNITIES

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, my good friend from Texas starts again the 
endless litany of bromides and class warfare. The fact is we can create 
jobs in this economy if we free those who create jobs to have more. 
What we do when we try to take the Government and say, ``You will do 
this or you will do that, Mr. Employer,'' is we shackle the very job 
opportunities that my friend from Texas purports to give honest working 
men and women.
  It comes down to this basic premise, and it is one of fairness: Do we 
empower all in this country to achieve all they can achieve; or would 
we have Government, through capricious action, tell those who create 
jobs, ``No, you are not entitled to create any more jobs; no, we are 
going to say to you we are going to penalize you for trying to create 
job opportunities, and instead it will be the Government who decides 
who giveth and, of course, the Government who, obviously, taketh 
away,'' with historic tax increases from this liberal side of the aisle 
and their liberal friends at the end of Pennsylvania Avenue.

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