[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 96 (Wednesday, July 9, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4920]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   CONSERVATIVE MAJORITY TO DELIVER TAX CUTS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (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, it was good to be back home in the Sixth 
District of Arizona last week, being outside of the beltway and all of 
the speculation and all the imagined conversation, and to talk to 
honest to goodness Americans and Arizonans, people who are pleased at 
long last, Mr. Speaker, that this conservative majority will deliver on 
promises that should have been realized a long time ago: tax cuts for 
the American people, the first tax cuts in over a decade and a half.
  Mr. Speaker, the people of the Sixth District viewed with alarm, 
concern and outright curiosity the claims by some about the notion of 
giving income tax cuts to people who do not pay income taxes. They said 
it in Show Low, Arizona, they said it in Eagar and Overgaard: How do we 
give an income tax cut to someone who does not pay income taxes? How 
indeed, Mr. Speaker?
  The good news is, over 70 percent of our tax cuts go to middle income 
families, working Americans. We realize the value of work, we realize 
the value of individual initiative, and Mr. Speaker, we realize the 
value of having hard-working Americans keep more of their own money in 
their pockets and send less of it here to Washington.

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