most Democrats think they are thinking, but in reality, they are merely reorganizing and rearranging their own prejudices. For example, when it comes to working Americans, Republicans and Democrats have major differences in their visions. Democrats believe it is fair for the government to take up to one-half of a family's income to pay for big government. Republicans do not. Democrats believe it is fair that average Americans have to work until mid-May just to pay their taxes. Republicans do not. Democrats believe they are doing us a favor by giving us tax breaks. Republicans believe that a tax break is not giving us anything, it is merely allowing us to keep what is already ours. Democrats believe America is undertaxed. Republicans believe America is overtaxed. The fact is, Democrats talk as if it is their money. Republicans believe that the money belongs to those people who earned it, not the politicians, not the Federal Government or Washington bureaucrats. Mr. Speaker, it is time that thinking Democrats stop favoring bureaucracy and start giving workers a tax break.
Sam Gibbons: “most Democrats think they are thinking, but in reality, they are merely reorganizing and rearranging their own…”
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Discussing differences between Republican and Democratic views on taxation and government spending.
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