Political Quotes

“the last time I rose on this floor to speak about the issue of tax cuts, I said that my colleagues on the other side simply do not get it. Well, in the time that has intervened, they have not learned anything. They still do not get it. The answer is that American people are not taxed too little. They are taxed too much. In 1950, the year after I was born, the average American family with children paid $1 out of $50 to the Federal Government in taxes. Today that family with children pays $1 out of $4. That is a 1,200-percent increase. They say it is a tax cut for the rich. I say they are wrong. But let us hear the argument. If they believe it is a tax cut for the rich and if they understand that we have had a 1,200-percent increase in taxes in America to the Federal Government alone, why are they not proposing that we cut taxes for people below the level, that we cut them further for the people they say are the poor and the needy? The answer is, they do not believe in tax cuts. The answer is, they are addicted to spending. The answer is that over the past 40 years they created this deficit and now they said, we could not balance the budget and cut taxes. Well, guess what? We proved them wrong. My colleague, the gentleman from Arizona [Mr. Kolbe], made the point. We not only balanced the budget, but we lifted the tax burden off the American people at the same time. We must do that. Get it straight. This is not our money. We are not giving back our money.”