[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17976]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



      AMERICANS SHOULD HOLD ON TO MORE OF THEIR HARD-EARNED MONEY

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, it is very interesting to come to the well 
of this Chamber; and we can always depend on something. It is as 
predictable as the swallows returning to San Juan Capistrano and the 
buzzards going back to Hinckley, Ohio. We always hear from my liberal 
friends every excuse in the book as to why the American people should 
not keep more of their hard-earned money.
  I appreciate my good friend from New York and his lesson in 
revisionist history. It is always interesting to hear the rationale of 
those doomed to defeat because they fail to recognize that, if given a 
choice, we believe Americans should hold on to more of their hard-
earned money instead of sending it to Washington bureaucrats to waste.
  While we are on the subject and talking about children, I am curious 
as to why my liberal friends think that those working Americans who 
earn $40,000 a year are somehow rich. Because it turns out those who 
make $40,000 a year pay nearly four times as much in taxes as those who 
earn $20,000 a year.
  Finally, Mr. Speaker, I point this out: It is real simple what we 
want to do with the surplus, the overcharge. We want to take $2 of that 
surplus and put it away, lock it away for Social Security and Medicare. 
And then with the other dollar that remains, we want to give it back to 
the American people because it is their money and in that way we will 
secure America's future and the majority in this Chamber.

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