[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 86 (Thursday, June 19, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3931]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               TAX RELIEF

  (Mr. SMITH of Michigan asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Michigan. I was going to talk about another issue, but 
I'll save that for another day. It seems important that we point out, 
Mr. Speaker, that over the last 40 years of Democrat control of this 
House, taxes increased much faster than inflation. My first year in 
Congress, 1993, the Democrat leadership without a single Republican 
vote decided that the best way to go was to increase taxes $250 billion 
over that 5-year period. Now, what we are talking about is giving only 
a small part of that 1993 tax increase back to the American people. We 
are only giving $85 billion back of that $250 billion tax increase. 
What we have got to do is figure out the kind of tax changes that are 
going to increase job opportunity, increase paychecks and give more 
freedom and opportunity and responsibility to individuals.

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