[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 152 (Tuesday, November 4, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H9870-H9871]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             PRESIDENT'S POSITION ON TAX RELIEF IS PUZZLING

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, I am wondering if some of my liberal 
friends on the other side of the aisle can help me with a question that 
is puzzling me. Why is it that it is selfish when we wish to keep what 
belongs to us, whereas it is compassion when we wish to take what 
belongs to another? I suppose by your own logic, it is selfish to lock 
your doors at night when you want to keep what you have earned.
  I guess all of the hard work and sacrifice that goes into earning 
what belongs to you, that is forgotten, because the liberals are busy 
today talking about how compassionate they are spending other people's 
money.
  Now we have the President of the United States on record showing what 
side he is on. Yesterday he called those of us that want tax cuts 
selfish. The President thinks that ordinary Americans ought to be 
condemned for thinking that the Government could get by on a little 
less, that families ought to have a little bit more.

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  It is kind of puzzling, is it not?

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