[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Pages 18482-18483]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       CUT TAXES AND CREATE JOBS

  (Mr. CULBERSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, Continental Airlines, one of the largest 
employers in Houston, has just laid off 1,700 people. And my friend, 
Mr. Chris Lee of New York, has put together an inspired chart that 
shows clearly what this liberal leadership of this House

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and this Congress are doing with our hard-earned tax dollars. They're 
redistributing the wealth to Washington, D.C., they're creating jobs in 
the government and Washington and out in Nancy Pelosi land, out in San 
Francisco and in State capitals across the Nation.
  But we fiscal conservatives understand, it's common sense: to create 
jobs, you cut taxes; you get lawyers and bureaucrats and regulators off 
the backs and out of the pockets of small business people. We need to 
cut taxes to create jobs. Do so immediately. We need to cut spending at 
the Federal level to reduce the level of debt that our children and 
grandchildren are going to have to pay.
  The Inspector General for the Treasury has just reported that these 
irresponsible bailouts that this liberal majority has passed could cost 
taxpayers up to $23.7 trillion on top of the $60 trillion in unfunded 
liability that we have already passed on to our kids.
  It's time to cut taxes and create jobs and get the government off our 
backs and out of our pockets.

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