Political Quotes

“who do we want to please with this budget? I think we want to please the American people. The Republican Budget Committee for the first time in many, many years held hearings across the United States the last couple of years to ask the people what kind of a budget they wanted. They said they would like a budget that allows them to keep more of their hard-earned income in their pockets rather than paying it out in taxes. They said America needs a budget that shifts power, money, and influence out of Washington and back to the people and the States and their communities. This budget is based on these principles. It takes less of each person's income by reducing the massive tax burden we have placed on our people. The average person in my State of Michigan now works 86 days a year just to pay their share of taxes at the local, State, and national level. Since President Clinton had his huge tax increase of 1993, my Michigan workers now have to work 7 additional days just to earn all of that money that goes in additional taxes. The Heritage Foundation estimates that the 1993 Clinton tax increase has cost Americans 1.2 million jobs, private sector jobs, and $208 billion in economic output. This budget calls for studies, Mr. Chairman, to say to States maybe it is going to be better if they keep the Federal tax money, rather than detour it through Washington to have Washington politically decide how that money is going to be distributed, and what they do send back?”