[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 133 (Tuesday, September 29, 1998)]
[House]
[Pages H9181-H9182]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                TAX CUTS

  (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, it was last year that Republicans passed 
tax cuts as part of the bipartisan balanced budget agreement. The 
President signed that legislation last summer.
  This year the Congress and especially the leadership of the 
Republicans passed another tax cut. But this year the Democrats are 
attacking these tax cuts, calling them an election year gimmick.
  This is a very strange attitude, but one that speaks volumes about 
what liberal Democrats think about tax cuts. Liberal Democrats do not 
think that Americans are overtaxed. They see no problem with a 
government that requires average Americans to work until mid-May, Tax 
Freedom Day, before having the right to keep the fruits of their labor. 
In fact, they act as if politicians are actually doing you a favor by 
letting you keep what already belongs to you.
  The money that people earn belongs to them, not to the politicians 
here in Washington. It is time that the liberals and the Democratic 
leadership understand that and show some respect for the hard-working 
people of America.

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