[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 95 (Tuesday, July 8, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H4844-H4845]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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               A TAX SYSTEM THAT REWARDS AMERICAN VIRTUES

  (Ms. DUNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)

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  Ms. DUNN. Mr. Speaker, in the huge best seller, ``The Book of 
Virtues,'' by William J. Bennett, the author compiles a collection of 
moral tales for children. Children are taught through these stories 
that they should live their lives with concern to moral virtues. The 
lessons they are taught include such virtues as self-discipline, 
responsibility, courage, perseverance, and honesty.
  Mr. Speaker, those are the very virtues that are so often the 
hallmark of people who have worked their way up from the bottom and 
have realized the American dream. They are the virtues that so often 
bring about prosperity and economic security.
  Mr. Speaker, in my view designing a tax system that rewards those 
virtues, that rewards hard work, that rewards playing by the rules, 
thrift, diligence, is exactly the kind of tax system that our country 
needs. The Republican tax cut is a step in that direction. It rewards 
the virtues that we all admire. It is a statement about how we live our 
lives.
  Let us make a change in that direction, Mr. Speaker, and pass the tax 
relief package and encourage the President to sign the tax relief 
package before the Congress.

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