[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23644]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         TAX PAIN ON AMERICANS

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, Congress talks about feeling the pain of 
Americans. Well, raising taxes on them doesn't ease their financial 
pain. Working families are already burdened with high gasoline prices 
and increased expenses every day of their lives. Working Americans 
deserve to keep more of their money. It should be their responsibility 
how to spend it, not a bunch of tax-and-spend bureaucrats in 
Washington, DC.
  We talk a lot about helping American families. Well, let them keep 
more of their money, instead of taxing them more. More government 
spending is not a strategy for helping Americans. More taxes on 
Americans, so special interest groups get more Federal money, is not a 
strategy for helping Americans.
  President Kennedy and President Reagan both proved tax cuts work. Tax 
cuts, not tax increases, are the fundamental way to move our economy 
forward. We need to make permanent the tax cuts. And who benefits from 
tax cuts? Anybody that pays taxes benefits. And those that live off the 
taxpayer should not expect everybody else to pay more taxes for them.
  And that's just the way it is.

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