[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 11, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H1163]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         TAX CUTS, NOT HANDOUTS

  (Mr. McCAUL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to bring to your attention a 
Trojan horse for billions of dollars in pork spending under the guise 
of a stimulus. This $1 trillion bill is designed to spend taxpayer 
money on programs that have nothing to do with creating jobs. It takes 
a step toward government-controlled health care and takes limits off of 
welfare spending to create endless handouts.
  This should be about creating jobs, not about making work. We can do 
this with long-term, meaningful tax cuts. The President's own economic 
advisers say the Republican plan will create twice the jobs for half 
the cost.
  We cannot spend our way out of debt. The nonpartisan Congressional 
Budget Office says that long-term, this bill will cause more harm than 
good. Yet Democrats intend to spend the equivalent of $1 million a day 
for the next 3,000 years. The hardworking people in my district are 
also hurting from this economy. But under this bill, their tax dollars 
will only dig a deeper hole for us to climb out of.

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