Build Back Better Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. SMUCKER. Mr. Speaker, I hope the American people are watching closely today because there is a fundamental question being debated, and that is: What should the role of the Federal Government be in each of our daily lives, and what economic system best provides for the opportunity and well-being of the American people? That is the question today.

Democrats believe--they said this in our hearings--that the Federal Government should provide everything to ensure all needs are met for middle-income Americans.

We believe in earned success. We believe in rewarding hard work. That system, the free market system, has provided more opportunity than ever before in the history of mankind.

Mr. Speaker, freedoms aren't taken all at once. They are taken bit by bit by bit. This is a move toward an entirely different economic system. It is a move toward socialism.

We know that doesn't work. Look at every country in history that has overdelivered and overspent. It has not ended well.

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