Jack Kingston: “to the middle class in America, there is one question now: Are you working longer and harder and have less to show for…”

“to the middle class in America, there is one question now: Are you working longer and harder and have less to show for it? Are you concerned that, while you may be better off than your parents were, will your children be better off than you are? Are you concerned that your children will not be able to share in the American dream; or has big government, irresponsible bureaucratic policies, command and control Washington politics, stolen the American dream from our children? I believe that it has. I am not going to say it is the only cause, the only threat to the American dream, but it certainly is a significant one. As Washington grows, our own personal freedoms contract. We lose freedom with every new regulation, with every new law, with every new tax, with every new bureaucracy. In the 1950's, the average American family paid 5 percent Federal income tax. Today it is 24 percent. That means that the average family is a two-income family, with 38 percent of the family income going to pay the Federal Government.”