[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 46 (Tuesday, March 17, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H3472]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   OUT-OF-CONTROL SPENDING MUST STOP

  (Mr. LUETKEMEYER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, families and small businesses all 
across our country are making sacrifices, yet our government continues 
to spend like a drunken sailor. And how does Washington propose paying 
for all this spending? With more tax increases on hardworking families 
and small businesses, the very businesses that are crucial generators 
of job creation and economic growth.
  The President's budget includes the largest tax increase in history, 
shouldering our families and small businesses with the cost of an ever-
expanding government. Tax increases on small businesses will stifle job 
creation and economic growth at the very moment our country needs a 
strong and robust small-business sector to help us get back on solid 
ground.
  The President's cap-and-trade program will increase the cost of 
energy for all Americans and place a tax of about $3,000 per household 
in my district for this very program. Hardworking families and 
businesses all across my district and America are asking: What is going 
on in Washington? Does it have a clue how we work hard and how we earn 
our money and what we are doing with it?
  This out-of-control spending must stop.

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