[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 15719-15720]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  0915
                           TAX-AS-THEY-SPEND

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, Democrats have announced 
they plan to actually use pay-as-you-go budgetary rules. You may 
remember how House Democrats have often cited PAYGO, while 
simultaneously finding any and every opportunity to disregard it. The 
zeal to spend taxpayer dollars is just too much. This would account for 
the fact that since Democrats have assumed control of Congress, the 
annual budgets deficits have ballooned over 11 times, from $160 billion 
to $1.8 trillion.
  It is clear that PAYGO, as proposed by our Democrat colleagues, is 
not so much about limiting the size of government as it is paying for a 
larger and more intrusive big government. This is entirely against the 
fiscal spirit of responsibility because it means Congress can continue 
to spend recklessly, as long as they find new and burdensome ways to 
tax more American families. Under this administration and their allies 
in Congress, pay-as-you-go should be more correctly called tax-as-they-
spend.

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  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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