[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 5]
[House]
[Pages 6368-6369]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE THE SOLUTION

  (Mr. CHAFFETZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHAFFETZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise with concern about the President's 
budget.
  Now is not the time to be raising taxes. We should not be raising 
rates, nor should we diminish the benefits for people who are paying 
their mortgage as they should be. As determined as the Democrats are to 
raise taxes, you don't fuel the engines of economic growth by 
penalizing those who are responsible, who do play by the rules, and who 
don't need a bailout. By reducing the tax reductions for mortgage 
interest, the Democrats are raising taxes, and they are growing 
government while reducing economic incentives for those who have 
resources to invest in a faltering economy.
  Further, at this time of need, now is not the time to reduce the 
benefits for making charitable donations. Nonprofit religious 
organizations and institutions of higher education are also struggling 
in this economy. The net result of the President's budget is less money 
for donating to those worthwhile causes.

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  We do have a choice: do you want to keep your money and spend your 
money, or do you want the government bureaucracy to tax and spend? I 
believe in the American people; it's their money, not the government's 
money. Government is not the solution, the American people are the 
solution.

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