[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 99 (Wednesday, July 14, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H5463]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            REPUBLICAN TAX CUT PLAN IS BALANCED AND SENSIBLE

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, even though there is a budget surplus here 
in Washington, the liberals are attacking the Republican tax cut 
proposal, calling it ``risky.'' They think it is risky because they do 
not trust the taxpayers to spend it right.
  Well, I have a different view. I do not trust the liberals to leave 
the taxpayers' money here in Washington. In fact, I think that it is 
truly risky to leave Americans' hard-earned taxes lying around here in 
Washington for people who have made their careers expanding government. 
It should come as no surprise that the money somehow gets spent. It 
always does, it always has, and it always will.
  Politicians will spend the taxpayers' money, then they will tickle 
their ears with wonderful reasons why they just had to spend it. Face 
it, the only way to stop politicians from expanding government and 
reducing hard-working Americans' freedoms is to give the money back to 
the people who earned it.
  I like the Republican plan: Lock up two-thirds of the money that is 
taken from the FICA payroll deductions for retirement security and give 
the other third back to the hard-working Americans who earned it. It is 
a balanced and sensible plan. I ask all my colleagues to support it.

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