Cut Taxes and Control Spending

Floor Speech

CUT TAXES AND CONTROL SPENDING -- (House of Representatives - February[[ 11, 2009)

(Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)

Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, as our country faces tough economic times, I think it is very important that we act responsibly to do the right thing to address this problem as opposed to what some people are proposing, and that is just to ram through something with expediency, not worrying about the consequences. I think we don't need to look any further than in our past to make sure, as people said before, if you don't learn from the mistakes of your past, you're doomed to repeat them.

Let's look at what the Treasury Secretary under FDR said during the New Deal. Henry Morgenthau said, ``After 8 years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started, and an enormous debt to boot.'' He went on to say about the New Deal during the 1930s, ``I have got my responsibility to my country, which comes first. We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before, and it does not work.'' That is not a Republican speaking. That was the Treasury Secretary under FDR.

Spending massive amounts of money doesn't work. It saddles future generations with more debt. There is a better alternative, and that is to cut taxes and control the spending like many of us propose.

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