[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2487]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        OUR ECONOMY IS ON A ROLL

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, if you get your news from the main-
stream media, you probably don't know that our economy is on a roll.
  Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 
2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, 
and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 
1980s, and the 1990s.
  Those across the aisle who voted against our tax relief for 
Americans, and against our tax reform, say that Americans are not 
paying enough and that the tax relief costs the government too much. 
Imagine that. They think government has the first right of refusal on 
your paycheck. Well, they are wrong on that.
  Our tax relief generated $160 billion more in tax revenues in 2004 
and 2005 than what was anticipated, than what was expected.
  Mr. Speaker, the liberals in this body think that tax relief is a 
gift from the government to the American worker. They are wrong on 
that. We Republicans know that they are wrong. We know taxes are a gift 
that the American taxpayer sends to Washington.

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