[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 102 (Monday, July 11, 2011)]
[House]
[Pages H4798-H4799]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         DON'T TAX JOB CREATORS

  (Mr. HARRIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, another week, and another week that our 
fiscal problems in this country are unsolved. We saw the jobs report--
18,000 jobs created when we need 350,000 jobs created in order to get 
our unemployment rate back down to 5 percent. And who can blame our job 
creators when all the

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talk in Washington now appears to be about how we can raise taxes on 
those job creators?
  I don't care whether we call it expenditures in our tax code or 
revenues, what they are are taxes on our job creators, and our job 
creators have responded by not creating jobs. Mr. Speaker, what they 
want is they want to know that Washington understands how to solve this 
problem. They want to know that we know that we can cut our spending, 
we can cap our future spending.
  Mr. Speaker, it's time for a balanced budget amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States. Forty-nine of the 50 States have it. 
We should have it here in Washington so that we never have to face 
again the question of how high to raise our debt ceiling and how far to 
put our children in debt.

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