[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 67 (Wednesday, May 7, 2003)]
[House]
[Page H3686]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    PASS THE TAX RELIEF PACKAGE NOW

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, it is written, if you owe taxes, pay taxes. 
No law-abiding American anywhere would argue the point. But one of my 
predecessors in this Chamber, Jack Kemp, also famously said, what you 
tax you get less of, what you subsidize you get more of.
  Today in America as our economy continues to list under the strain of 
overtaxation and overregulation for the past decade, we are taxing 
capital gains and investment in savings; and eastern Indiana, that I 
serve here in Washington, is getting less for it.
  Families, small businesses and family farms are hurting as jobs 
evaporate in communities across eastern Indiana. Many in this town are 
playing politics, demagoguing the President's drive to pass additional 
tax relief and put Americans back to work; but it is time to set 
politics aside. We need to bring real tax relief on income inheritance, 
marriage, savings and investment in America. We need to turn this 
economy around. Our recovery is stalled. Our Nation is impatient. It is 
time we heed the President's call for economic renewal and pass the tax 
relief package now.

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