Political Quotes

“there is a person who has been forgotten about in this entire debate over our constitutional amendment to curb the powers of the U.S. Congress to raise taxes. It is the person who gets up every day at the crack of dawn, packs the kids' lunch, gets the kids off to school, and he walks out the door with his lunch bucket, and oftentimes his wife will go to work also, and they work long hours, and they come back home, help the kids with the homework, and sit down on a Friday night, begin to write some checks and realize that they are working harder than ever in their entire lives and taking home less money. The reason for that is government is too big, it is too pervasive. The Federal Government has over 10,000 programs, and according to a chapter called generational forecasts that appears in most of our annual budgets, by the time their child who was born after 1993 goes into the work force, that child will pay in State, local, and Federal taxes between 84 and 94 percent of his or her income in taxes. We have a crisis on our hands before, and that is that some morning when these Americans get up to go to work they are going to turn on the television set and find out that the dollar has been so devaluated that their pension plans are worthless, that the economy is going to collapse because of the tremendous effect of the debt that $5.3 trillion has on this Nation. They are the ones who have been left out of this debate.…”