Jack Kingston: “Mr. Speaker, I wanted to put in my comments on this very good debate here, and it is a debate that is good, because it…”

“Mr. Speaker, I wanted to put in my comments on this very good debate here, and it is a debate that is good, because it shows clashing two philosophies: one of higher taxes for more spending, versus lower taxes for more private sector growth, more jobs through the private sector. The proposal in front of us today is for a $270 billion tax increase over a 10-year period of time. So taxes would go up in a fashion like that, $270 billion; and the justification that we are hearing is so that we can spend more money. But I want to say this as a fiscal conservative: if you look at what we have been doing since 1994, we have in fact been spending a lot of money, and, ironically, in the very areas where we are being accused of not spending enough. But this is a Committee on the Budget chart, and it shows since 1994 how much our spending has in fact increased. We are being accused of not spending enough on education; but here is one education program alone, title I. Since 1999, it has gone up this much, nearly, I am going to guess, about $6 billion.”