[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 1]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 1389-1390]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     LESSONS FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE

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                            HON. TREY GOWDY

                           of south carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 13, 2013

  Mr. GOWDY. Mr. Speaker I submit the following paper on lessons 
learned from the Roman Empire from Rachel Castellani, a 6th grade 
student from Southside Christian School in Simpsonville, SC. Rachel 
wrote,

       I believe that what I have learned can help me with 
     politics and economics. I think that if the Romans had not 
     gone and taken some of the risks they had taken and maybe had

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     been less violent, the empire might still be alive today. A 
     topic I want to talk about is the economy. If you are trying 
     to encourage the lower class citizens (plebians) why do you 
     raise tax rates higher? This is the same thing happening to 
     America, I don't want to be left in the same situation. Let's 
     lower taxes and form new business in America. Don't let our 
     nation crumble like Rome's!

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