[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 84 (Tuesday, June 17, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3811]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     DEMOCRATS WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE MORE OF TAXPAYERS' MONEY

  (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, in the immortal words of Ronald Wilson 
Reagan, there you go again. We have been hearing claims of class 
warfare, of how the rich are somehow going to be soaking the poor, but 
the fact of the matter is that for 40 years Washington, DC has been 
soaking everybody, getting more and more tax revenue up to Washington, 
DC.
  It was Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey that ran an Independent 
Entitlements Council, and determined that in 30 years, our children, my 
9-year-old boy when he is 39 years old, will be paying Washington 89 
percent of every dollar that he makes in Federal taxes.
  Yet, we bring tax relief to this floor, and time and time again it is 
the liberals, and some would say radicals, that are against it. They 
want Washington to have more and more and more, and what we in the 
Republican party are saying is government needs to have less and less 
and less, and let the people keep more and more of their money.

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