[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 25, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H4379-H4380]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                TAX CUTS IN BUDGET AGREEMENT HONOR WORK

  (Ms. PRYCE of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. PRYCE of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, it is painfully obvious by now how 
painful

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it is for the liberal Democrats to accept tax cuts of any kind. The 
truth is they simply cannot justify letting Americans keep more of 
their hard-earned money.
  In their view, Mr. Speaker, the politicians are doing people a favor 
by letting them keep what is already theirs. Their idea of fairness is 
that the people who worked harder, who went to school a little longer, 
who got up a little earlier, who stayed at the office a little later, 
who took the risks, who worked harder to come up with better ideas, 
their idea of fairness means that those same people are somehow not 
justified in their desire to be rewarded for their efforts.
  In the commonsense view of fairness, money does not come easily for 
those who earn it. The tax cuts in this balanced budget amendment 
honors work. It lets millions of middle-class taxpayers keep more of 
what they worked so hard to earn.

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