[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 2 (Thursday, January 24, 2002)]
[House]
[Page H40]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




BASIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ON STIMULATING THE 
                                ECONOMY

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, listening to the previous speaker, my 
friend from California, I wonder, did he not take economics in school?
  History has shown us over and over again, lowering taxes stimulates 
the economy; stimulating the economy gives more people jobs; more 
people working means more people paying taxes; more people paying taxes 
means more revenues coming into Washington. And that is the basic 
difference between the Republican Party and the Democrat Party and 
their allies in Big Government.
  That is why Ted Kennedy, the leader of the Democrat Party, has called 
for a massive new tax increase. Hello.


                Announcement by the Speaker pro tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman will suspend.
  All Members must avoid improper references to the Senate or to 
Members thereof.
  Mr. KINGSTON. I thank the Speaker. I will not say anything more about 
the Democrat leader, who we all know now to be a prominent Democrat in 
the other body, who wants to increase taxes. And one can only assume 
that he has allies in the House over here, judging from the 1-minutes 
we are hearing, it seems just sort of calling for more tax increases.
  Mr. Speaker, I strongly believe the way to turn the economy around is 
to still let people spend their own money, rather than having 
government bureaucracies in Washington in their command-and-control 
fashion spend tax dollars.
  Let us create jobs by giving people back their hard-earned money.

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