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



        GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT KEEP TAXPAYERS' HARD-EARNED MONEY

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, Republicans are proposing a tax cut. In 
fact, we passed it in the House of Representatives here just last week. 
Democrats criticized it, and now they say they want to target a tax 
cut. But there is a big difference. Republicans are targeting all 
taxpayers. If they pay taxes, they get a tax cut. To liberal Democrats 
that is not fair. To their way of thinking only if the government 
decides whether they are worthy of some social engineering should they 
get a tax cut. And if they are carrying most of the tax burden, they 
are the last persons the liberal Democrats here in the House want to 
give a tax cut to. For most taxpayers, when a liberal wants to give a 
targeted tax cut, well, this is a euphemism for ``you are not getting 
one.''
  Let me say again what the Republican approach to tax cuts is, if one 
is a taxpayer, one gets to keep some of one's hard-earned money. It is 
not the Government's money. It belongs to the people who had labored 
and worked hard to earn it in the first place.
  Yes, it is a question of fairness and it sends an important signal to 
the American people that hard work will be rewarded.

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