[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 16, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H4347]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  REPUBLICANS BELIEVE THAT LOW TAXES ARE FAIRER THAN HIGH TAXES, AND 
         PEOPLE SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO THE FRUITS OF THEIR LABOR

  (Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, too many Americans liberals 
have a strange concept of fairness. When it comes to taxes, the 
liberals' idea of fairness strikes me and most Americans as very 
unfair.
  If one person works twice as hard as another, most people do not 
think it is unfair if he earns twice as much. A liberal would disagree. 
As a matter of fact, the liberal tends to demonize the harder working 
person.
  Most people do not think it is unfair that people who sacrifice 
income through long and difficult years in college and even graduate 
school expect to find jobs which pay higher than other jobs for their 
efforts. Yet, we find liberals constantly railing against people who 
are rewarded for their educational sacrifices as the rich, and 
presumably not entitled to the rewards they worked so hard to obtain.
  I find the tax on the rich and any class of people profoundly un-
American.
  Republicans believe that low taxes, low taxes on all Americans, rich 
or poor, are more fair than high taxes. Should not freedom mean that 
people are entitled to the fruits of their labor?

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