Porter Goss: “I obviously rise in strong support of this fair and I think very appropriate rule for what we are about, which permits…”

“I obviously rise in strong support of this fair and I think very appropriate rule for what we are about, which permits consideration of 2 important measures, the Balanced Budget Act and the Taxpayer Relief Act, in fact probably one of the most important things we will do in this session of Congress. Today, we take another major step toward the first balanced budget in over a generation, as the gentleman from New York said, and the first actual relief for American taxpayers in almost a generation. Despite this indisputable progress, we continue to hear this same tired rhetoric, we have already heard it, this class warfare from the defenders of the status quo. As usual they claim they have a study or they will get one that proves that the majority of the tax cuts are going to go to the, quote, rich. Of course, they define rich to suit their own purpose. Mr. Speaker, if someone earns $40,000 a year, the big Government crowd is going to consider them rich, and this is how they are going to do it: artificially inflate their income through the addition of their future pension as well as the potential rental value of their home.”