[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12344]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         APRIL REVENUE SHOWERS

  (Mr. McHENRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, April revenue showers. That is what the 
Wall Street Journal called the large government revenues received by 
this Federal Government in the month of April. It was $70 billion over 
revenue in 2006. It shows that tax cuts work. The Democrats, on the 
other hand, want to raise taxes. They want to raise the taxes that 
American people pay.
  What we believe in and what the President has done in just the five 
short years he has been in office is to actually cut taxes that the 
American people pay, which, in the end, through greater economic 
growth, will lead to more government revenue.
  A case in point: the capital gains tax cut and the dividends tax cut, 
those two things have resulted in a 30 percent increase in revenue 
under those two provisions. It shows that tax cuts work.
  They are good for the economy and they are good for the American 
people, and we need to extend the tax cuts.

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