[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 21]
[House]
[Page 28834]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         TRULY SCARY HALLOWEEN

  (Mr. AKIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. AKIN. Madam Speaker, today is Halloween. The Democrats are doing 
a good job celebrating it. They are handing out entitlements like 
Halloween candy. The question is how are we going to pay for it. Well, 
they have approved $431 billion in new taxes this year, but for 
Halloween they have got something that is really scary: the mother of 
all tax increases, the biggest tax increase in the history of our 
country, $3.5 trillion.
  The question becomes on Halloween, with fuel prices going up, with 
the cost of health care going up, with the cost of housing going up, 
how can we face something as scary as the mother of all tax increases.

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