[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 98 (Friday, July 11, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5136]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     GOVERNMENT'S POWER TO TAKE AWAY OUR DREAMS HAS GROWN TOO GREAT

  (Ms. DUNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. DUNN. Mr. Speaker, few issues are more closely linked to the idea 
of freedom than taxation. America is a land of opportunity, but it can 
only be so if people are free from a government that stands in the way 
of individuals pursuing their own dreams. Families who came to America 
as immigrants earlier in this century may have arrived penniless, but 
they knew that through hard work in our country the sky was the limit. 
They knew that to be true because their friends and others who had come 
before them had proved that America really was a country where the sky 
was the limit.
  Mr. Speaker, people came to America to escape the limits on their 
freedom at home, whether religious, economic, or political, and they 
came to pursue their dreams, but when Government takes more and more of 
the fruits of one's labor it becomes more and more difficult to pursue 
those dreams.
  Quite simply, Government's power to take away from dreams has grown 
too great. It is time now to cut back on Government's power, it is time 
to cut back on taxes, it is time to bring back the opportunity that we 
know in this country of ours called America.

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