[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6135]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                BALANCE THE BUDGET WITHOUT RAISING TAXES

  (Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BARRETT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, simply chasing higher 
spending with higher taxes, as the Democrats want, will fail to address 
the unsustainable growth of government spending. We must balance the 
budget without tax increases.
  Part of the Republican plan is to make permanent the tax relief that 
continues to support our Nation's economic prosperity. Our pro-growth 
policies have worked to support our economy's solid sustained growth 
and have created more than 7.4 million new jobs. This growth has also 
fueled double-digit growth in Federal revenues and put us on a path to 
balancing the budget.
  The Democrat plan would simply reverse this progress with job-killing 
automatic tax increases.
  The Republican plan also includes reforms to unsustainable 
entitlement programs so they can meet the mounting challenges and 
obligations of the future.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people elected us to find solutions, not 
create more problems. I urge my colleagues to work with the Republicans 
to implement these real and workable solutions for a more fiscally 
responsible tomorrow.

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