[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15687]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    TAX CUTS ARE AN ISSUE OF FREEDOM

  (Mr. WELDON of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELDON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, we have to really hand it to the 
Democrats. They already have their line memorized and ready to repeat 
over and over again.
  Republicans propose tax relief that largely excludes upper income 
people from benefiting; again, tax relief for everyone except the rich. 
And what are the Democrats saying about it already? Yes, ``Tax cuts for 
the wealthy.''
  Any tax relief, tax relief at all, is immediately labeled by the 
other side as tax cuts for the wealthy. It is an insult to the millions 
of middle class taxpayers who would benefit from tax relief to be 
demonized by liberals who oppose tax relief everywhere and anywhere.
  Of course, it is an insult to those who are carrying most of the 
load, the people who are paying the most in taxes.
  In America, the issue is not whether upper income people need a tax 
cut. Of course they do not. But in America, it is an issue of freedom. 
It is their money. It does not belong to the government, and it does 
not belong to liberal politicians in Washington who want to spend it on 
more wasteful government programs.

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