[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 24 (Wednesday, February 10, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H544]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             THE MONEY BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE WHO EARNED IT

  (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, what a surprise. Republican proposals to 
cut taxes have already been met with speech after speech by my liberal 
democratic friends denouncing them as tax cuts for the rich.
  Well, we will celebrate this April 15th a $400 child tax cut for 
families, a tax cut for all families and one that the President 
approved.
  Has anyone else noticed that no matter what tax cuts Republicans 
propose, it will automatically, 100 percent guaranteed, be called tax 
cuts for the wealthy by the party that not only does everything in its 
power to discourage wealth creation but apparently feels intense hatred 
for anyone who has realized the American dream.
  Of course, we all remember what the Democrats called rich in the last 
Congress: Anyone who is middle class. But I will ask that middle class 
farmer in Illinois if he is rich, and I will ask that security guard 
trying to earn extra money if eliminating the marriage penalty, or if 
the $500 tax credit will benefit him, and if he is the wealthy? And of 
course my liberal friends on the other side, many of whom themselves 
are quite rich indeed, might never have considered the simple fact that 
rich or not the money belongs to the people who earned it anyway.

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