[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 132 (Monday, September 28, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H9092]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            TAX CUT PACKAGE UNDER VICIOUS ATTACK BY LIBERALS

  (Mr. SHIMKUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Speaker, the House of Representatives passed a tax 
cut package this past Saturday that, not surprisingly, is under vicious 
attack by liberals.
  Think about that for a second. The very idea that government could 
get by with a little less so that families could have a little more is 
so offensive to liberals who worship at the alter of big government, no 
matter how much it wastes and no matter how dismal its results.
  We have heard over and over again that tax cuts are an election year 
gimmick. This is quite revealing about the different attitudes of 
conservatives and liberals when it comes to the relationship between 
the governed and their Washington masters.
  Conservatives have a respect for work. They believe that it is a 
fundamental principal of freedom to have the right to the fruits of 
your labor. Liberals act like people who work extra hard, who go the 
extra mile to get extra education and are thereby rewarded for those 
efforts with a higher income, have something to apologize for.
  In their view tax cuts are not even legitimate. They are nothing more 
than an election year gimmick. Liberalism speaks for itself.

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