L. Paxon: “I find it appropriate that as the Nation prepares to celebrate Independence Day, this House is cutting taxes for our…”

“I find it appropriate that as the Nation prepares to celebrate Independence Day, this House is cutting taxes for our hard-working families back home. For too long liberals have treated the middle class as their personal ATM machine, a cash cow to pay for their big government schemes. They taxed your income, they taxed your gas, your cable, your electricity, your house, and they even taxed you when you died. Liberals have come up with all kinds of clever new taxes, never giving a thought for a second to the people that have to pay those taxes, people like the truck driver who cannot afford to send his daughter to college, or the nurse and police officer who cannot give their twin sons some new school clothes. Well, today, for those folks and millions more, we declare independence from big government and high taxes. In fact, 76 percent of our tax cuts go to those families who earn less than $75,000 a year. Our plan includes education and per-child tax credits to make it a little easier for families to raise their kids. Mr. Chairman, for the American taxpayers, the Fourth of July comes early this year, and for once, it is not the taxpayers who are getting barbecued.”