[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 124 (Thursday, September 17, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H7926]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         GOVERNMENT SHOULD HELP FARMERS, NOT HELP DESTROY THEM

  (Mr. LATHAM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Speaker, I would like to speak this morning on a 
problem that is devastating to rural America, to Iowa: Our livestock 
producers are suffering from extremely low prices.
  And I would like to inform the Congress as to what the response from 
this administration has been. It is a typical liberal Democrat 
response. Secretary Glickman gets together with the President and 
decides the answer is to raise taxes on farmers.
  All we have to do is look at the budget and there are $573 million of 
new taxes on livestock farmers in the President's budget. This is the 
kind of response this administration has to a farm crisis, is to raise 
taxes on farmers? When will this Congress wake up and find out that we 
have got to help these people, not bring the normal answer from the 
liberal Democrats and tax and tax more.
  The well is dry. Our farmers are broke. Let us try to help them, not 
destroy them.

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