NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “Reclaiming my time, when you talk about that $500 per child tax credit, I cannot help but think of the people of the…”

“Reclaiming my time, when you talk about that $500 per child tax credit, I cannot help but think of the people of the Sixth District of Arizona who send me here to represent them. I cannot help but think of a single mother who may have three children, whose spouse may have deserted her, who is working hard, playing by the rules, trying to provide for her family and yes, seeking outside educational skills to heighten her earning potential, despite the trauma that has most assuredly occurred in her personal life. By denying the $500 per child tax credit, the champions of big government, the champions of expansive and excessive bureaucracy are saying to that single mother, ``No, indeed, ma'am. You do not need that $1,500 to spend or save for your family as you see fit. That money instead should be taken from you and given to the bureaucracy in Washington, D.C.'' How fundamentally cynical, how philosophically bankrupt, how essentially immoral that notion is. For what we do here is to establish the primacy of the State, the primacy of the bureaucracy instead of the power of the people. In a free society, that young lady struggling to provide for those three children should have that money to spend on those children as she sees fit.”