[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3703]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                           WE NEED TAX RELIEF

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I had the honor of being visited 
by the Savannah Christian Middle School, and in the back row of this 
large crowd of students, there was a young woman named Amy. Amy made 
about $20 a day working for her father, but, of course, she only took 
home about $16. Mr. Speaker, $4 going for taxes.
  Amy and the other students understood that we in government need 
taxes to pay for roads and bridges and military and education and all 
those things. She did not regret that. She did not begrudge that a bit; 
but I said to her, Amy, if you knew we could do all that, plus debt 
reduction for $3.50, what would you want done with the remaining 50 
cents? Would you want me to keep it and expand government and take away 
more rights and privileges from you, or would you like to keep that 50 
cents? She said, with all the other students, give it back to me. It is 
my money.
  What a pity that our Washington bureaucracy does not understand this 
principle. If Amy has that money, what she is going to do is buy more 
CDs, more hamburgers, more clothes. It adds up.
  When she does that, small businesses expand, they create jobs and 
opportunities for people. More people work. More people are paying 
taxes, and it is a win-win.
  Mr. Speaker, we need tax relief. It will get the economy moving.

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