[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 100 (Tuesday, July 15, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5194]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          MORE ON TAX FAIRNESS

  (Ms. DUNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DUNN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to continue the discussion of 
fairness started by the gentlewoman from Ohio.
  I begin with the proposition that it is not fair and it is not 
compatible with freedom that the Government has the power to take half 
of everything a person earns, no matter how much money that person 
earns. I would like to focus rather on fairness to the poorest 
Americans, those who are most in need of an expanding economy, those 
who are most in need of an economy with job opportunities, and those 
who are most in need of a tax system that allows for prosperity.
  Mr. Speaker, people who do not have a lot of money, even if the 
liberals do not realize it, realize that there is no substitute for 
prosperity. When the economy is in hard times, the poor get hurt the 
most. We know that the Government can set up a tax system that either 
encourages or discourages prosperity.
  Notice I did not say create prosperity because the Government cannot 
do that, only the people can. The Government can only stand in the way.
  Mr. Speaker, taxes are too high. We all know it. That definitely is 
not fair.

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