[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 128 (Wednesday, September 23, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H8464]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS HAVE DIFFERENT VISIONS FOR WORKING AMERICANS

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, most Democrats think they are thinking, but 
in reality, they are merely reorganizing and rearranging their own 
prejudices.
  For example, when it comes to working Americans, Republicans and 
Democrats have major differences in their visions. Democrats believe it 
is fair for the government to take up to one-half of a family's income 
to pay for big government. Republicans do not.
  Democrats believe it is fair that average Americans have to work 
until mid-May just to pay their taxes. Republicans do not.
  Democrats believe they are doing us a favor by giving us tax breaks. 
Republicans believe that a tax break is not giving us anything, it is 
merely allowing us to keep what is already ours.
  Democrats believe America is undertaxed. Republicans believe America 
is overtaxed. The fact is, Democrats talk as if it is their money. 
Republicans believe that the money belongs to those people who earned 
it, not the politicians, not the Federal Government or Washington 
bureaucrats.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time that thinking Democrats stop favoring 
bureaucracy and start giving workers a tax break.

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