[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 105 (Wednesday, July 23, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5580]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        LIBERALS ARE UNWILLING TO GIVE THE MIDDLE CLASS A BREAK

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, the liberals are simply unwilling to give 
the middle class a break. They are playing the class warfare card 
again. They seem to do it all the time; it is happening again. Thanks 
to the wonders of something called the family economic income, middle-
class families are defined as rich, and then of course the government 
should have the right to take away half of what one earns because the 
politicians should be allowed to spend that money instead of us.
  Mr. Speaker, I think we ought to let the American people keep the 
money in their own pockets, decide how they want to spend it, not the 
politicians up here in Washington, and all of this is in the interest 
of fairness, so to speak. But if the family economic income argument is 
not working, then the liberals turn to their other rhetorical 
shenanigans. They want to turn a tax cut into a program, and get this:
  They want to give a check to people who are not paying any income 
taxes.
  This tax cut is supposed to be a cut for people who actually pay 
taxes. It is supposed to help particularly the middle class.
  The American people in this country are overtaxed, particularly the 
middle class. Let us give them a break, and let us do it now.

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