[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 10, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H543]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  A FAIR AND SIMPLE PLAN TO CUT TAXES

  (Mr. KNOLLENBERG asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KNOLLENBERG. Mr. Speaker, we have heard about the surplus. Over 
the next 15 years, the Federal Government is projected to run a surplus 
of $4.4 trillion. As the debate over how to use this money heats up, 
the protectors of big government will scream bloody murder about any 
plan to provide the American people with any tax relief.
  To them I ask: If we cannot cut taxes when the economy is strong, the 
Federal Government is in the black, and taxes are at an all-time high, 
when can we do it?
  Mr. Speaker, the American people are sending too much money to 
Washington, and it is time for Congress to send some of it back home.
  I have introduced a fair and simple plan that cuts taxes across the 
board, 10 percent across the board. It gets into every household of all 
those who pay taxes. This proposal ends the practice of picking winners 
and losers among overtaxed Americans and benefits, again, everyone who 
pays Federal income taxes. I urge my colleagues on both sides of the 
aisle to support this bill.

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