[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12631]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



   TAXES KEEP GETTING RAISED AND BURDEN ON TAXPAYERS IS GREATER AND 
                                GREATER

  (Mr. COOKSEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COOKSEY. Mr. Speaker, in the last 40 years we have almost never 
heard a politician run on a pledge to raise taxes. Yet, somehow taxes 
keep getting raised, and the tax burden on the middle income just gets 
greater and greater.
  Middle income families send between one-fourth and one-third of 
everything they earn to the government, and the government in turn is 
not very careful with what it takes.
  Even worse, the arrogance of government and of the tax-and-spenders 
who keep on expanding government is such that the liberal Democrats 
routinely imply that they are doing people a favor by letting them keep 
more of what already belongs to them.
  They talk about giving people tax breaks as if the government is 
giving them something. How truly revealing. A government that cuts 
taxes is not giving anybody anything. It is merely not taking as much 
from what already belongs to the taxpayer.
  Liberals hate tax cuts. The New York Times and the Washington Post 
constantly editorialize against them. Why is it so terrible to give 
Americans more freedom and government less?

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