the liberals are simply unwilling to give the middle class a break. They are playing the class warfare card again. They seem to do it all the time; it is happening again. Thanks to the wonders of something called the family economic income, middle-class families are defined as rich, and then of course the government should have the right to take away half of what one earns because the politicians should be allowed to spend that money instead of us. Mr. Speaker, I think we ought to let the American people keep the money in their own pockets, decide how they want to spend it, not the politicians up here in Washington, and all of this is in the interest of fairness, so to speak. But if the family economic income argument is not working, then the liberals turn to their other rhetorical shenanigans. They want to turn a tax cut into a program, and get this: They want to give a check to people who are not paying any income taxes. This tax cut is supposed to be a cut for people who actually pay taxes. It is supposed to help particularly the middle class. The American people in this country are overtaxed, particularly the middle class. Let us give them a break, and let us do it now.
On the recordJuly 23, 1997
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Discussing tax policy and its impact on the middle class.
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