Jon L. Christensen: “the only point anyone has missed in this whole debate is the fact that the American people are frustrated and fed up.…”

“the only point anyone has missed in this whole debate is the fact that the American people are frustrated and fed up. The last 30 years their taxes have been raised and raised and raised every time. This amendment today would reassure taxpayers that they are entitled to the money that they work so hard to earn and the taxes will only be raised when absolutely necessary. I am convinced that you can never satisfy the appetite of certain Members of this body to tax and to spend the earned incomes of our working families. While we may not be able to cure their appetite, this supermajority amendment would put a hurdle in the system that Washington's big spenders would have to jump before they could get into our wallets. President Clinton recently declared that the era of big government is over. And he is right. By passing this amendment, we will put a needed restraint on the politicians who want to keep raising taxes to pay for more big government programs. I urge my colleagues to support passage of this important amendment to the Constitution of the United States and to restore some economic sanity back to the people who sent us here.”