Mark Neumann: “that is also why in this tax cut package, and we heard the debate earlier in the evening to try to provide tax cuts for…”

“that is also why in this tax cut package, and we heard the debate earlier in the evening to try to provide tax cuts for people who are not paying any taxes. They have somehow lost sight of this, and we see as this is all developing and we have this bright picture and this very large change from what was going on in the past, from the broken promises and the mistargets and no hope of a balanced budget and the tax increases, we have now moved into the present where we are actually going to balance the budget and we have curtailed the growth of government spending, so that we are not only balancing the budget but reducing those taxes, that change is so substantial and they are struggling to get back to that old way. So while we do not want to cut taxes for people who are not paying any taxes, they want to create a new social welfare program and give them a check even if they are not paying taxes. Somehow there is something not quite right about that. It just does not flow that one cannot get a tax cut if one is not paying taxes. Mr. Speaker, one more thing. A lot of the folks viewing this, our colleagues viewing this this evening are struggling to understand just how far we have come from the old Gramm-Rudman-Hollings days and the tax increases, to the present where we are not only on track, we are in the third year of our plan, and we have in fact curtailed the growth of government spending so that we can provide both tax cuts and a balanced budget.”