Jay Dickey: “$245 million; that is what the tax cut is proposed right now. People are saying, ``What about spending cuts first? Part…”

“$245 million; that is what the tax cut is proposed right now. People are saying, ``What about spending cuts first? Part of this is being overlooked.'' One way that we can have spending cuts in our Government is to starve the agencies that are overspending at this time. So, we are looking at shrinking the Government by reducing the taxes. That is No. 1. No. 2 is that we are going to give back to the taxpayers the money that they have earned. We have too long gone with the idea that this money that comes up here is the Government's. It is ours. It is the bureaucrats'. It is the politicians'. It is not. It is the people who earn it, and those people who earn it are entitled to spend it, and, if we give it back to them, they will spend it the way they want to, or they can save it. We, as a government, are not saving anything. We have a chance to give it back to the people. We have a chance to say, ``You've earned it, and you could do what you want to with it. It will help the economy.'' One other thing: When we sit here and say we are going to discriminate against the rich and we do not want to have a tax cut because it will help the rich, it is avoiding an opportunity to have a role model for those people who want to acquire more.”