[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8470]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                            THE BUDGET MYTH

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, the days of tax and spend are back. The new 
reform budget passed by the House just a few minutes ago actually is 
for more taxes, more spending. So Americans need to get out their 
checkbooks because they are going to be paying more because here is the 
deal:
  This budget will increase tax rates on all Americans who pay taxes 
because the tax cuts will expire. It will cut the tax credit for 
children by half, and it will punish married people by taxing them more 
because they choose to be married. And it will also tax Americans when 
they die, literally tax them to death. This bill is the largest tax 
increase in American history. Furthermore, this fat and sassy bill 
increases wasteful spending.
  We ought to be cutting taxes, cutting wasteful spending because that 
is the American way, that is the right way. Because Americans pay, they 
always pay, and they are going to pay a lot more.
  And that's just the way it is.

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