[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6464]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       VICTOR FROM HUFFMAN, TEXAS

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Victor from Huffman, Texas, writes me 
this:

       I work. I pay my taxes. In order to earn that paycheck, I 
     work on construction projects. Every morning we file into a 
     job site like cattle. We are searched, scanned and tested. 
     But the government hands out our money to those who don't 
     work for free houses, cars, food, and the list just gets 
     longer. I work 84 hours a week just to make ends meet. The 
     more I work, the more I get taxed. We have families that we 
     only see at night, if at all. We work outages, turnarounds, 
     and shutdowns. If I don't pay my taxes, I go to jail. If I 
     don't do my job, I'm fired. We work extra to have extra, not 
     so we can pay for more government programs.

  Mr. Speaker, workers are tired of their taxes going up just so the 
government can get more people dependent on government.
  And that's just the way it is.

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