[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17018]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                            TEN-YEAR TAX CUT

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, the tax cut we will take up today is spread 
over 10 years. Some people say it is too big. Well, during the first 5 
years, the cuts amount to about 1\1/2\ percent of total Federal 
revenues over that period, and the bill has about $2 billion of debt 
reduction, more than double the amount of tax cuts.
  Just this morning, I read a quote that is very appropriate as we take 
up our tax cut debt reduction bill today. In a book called the Coming 
Charitable Revolution are these words, quote, ``Governments afflict the 
people of the world with heavy taxation. With seeming generosity, they 
return to the subdued masses some of that money in social aid for which 
the populous will be humbly grateful, and by so doing will submit and 
conform, giving up a little at a time what little may be left of their 
freedom. Are we fools? Did our fathers fight in vain?'' The words of 
Claude Morency.
  Mr. Speaker, let us give the American people back a very small 
portion of their own money.

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