Jeb Hensarling: “again, what we see in this budget debate is it comes down to a debate about values, it comes down, frankly, to a debate…”

“again, what we see in this budget debate is it comes down to a debate about values, it comes down, frankly, to a debate about spending, it comes down to a debate about taxes. Now, again, what we have heard all evening is that somehow the tax relief passed by Republicans has led to great deficits. The only problem is, that doesn't seem to jive with the facts. I hold in my hand here the latest Treasury report on revenues. Since we have actually passed tax relief, we have more tax revenues. More tax revenues. When we allow the American people, the American families and small businesses to keep more of what they earn, they go out and they create jobs. And a lot of these jobs happen to be in my district. But, Mr. Chairman, if we enact this Democrat alternative, you are going to have a massive tax increase and you are going to start taking the jobs away. Since we passed tax relief, Hugh Dublin in my congressional district, his business used to have three employees. Since we passed tax relief, he added two new employees, a guy named Dan and a guy named David. {time} 2300 Yet Democrats want to raise taxes on Hugh Dublin and his small business. They want to take away these guys' paychecks, and they are going to end up replacing them with welfare checks. And that is what they call compassion. That is what the Democratic tax increase is all about. Let me tell you about Eddie Alexander of SSS Electric in my district back in Texas.…”