[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 106 (Thursday, July 24, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5668]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




REPUBLICANS WANT TO EMPOWER FAMILIES BY TAKING AWAY SPENDING DECISIONS 
             OF IRS AND PUTTING THEM BACK WHERE THEY BELONG

  (Mr. ROGAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGAN. Mr. Speaker, every morning in America, working families 
get up, send someone to work, sometimes two parents to work; they earn 
a paycheck, and they are required by law to send a big chunk of it back 
to the IRS in Washington, DC, so bureaucrats can make spending 
decisions for their families.
  The Republicans in this Congress have proposed empowering families by 
taking those spending decisions away from the IRS and putting them back 
where they belong.
  Our friends on the left do not agree with that proposal. They want to 
stop this tax cut, and the only way they can do it is to find some 
reason to be against it, and the argument we hear day after day is that 
it is a tax cut for the rich.
  We should ask ourselves who they mean by the rich. They mean people 
earning $50,000 a year, like the family that the distinguished 
gentleman from Missouri [Mr. Gephardt] showed us. If someone owns a TV 
set and can listen to this debate, they are probably the rich they are 
talking about.

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