Don't Tax Job Creators

Floor Speech

Mr. HARRIS. Mr. Speaker, another week, and another week that our fiscal problems in this country are unsolved. We saw the jobs report--18,000 jobs created when we need 350,000 jobs created in order to get our unemployment rate back down to 5 percent. And who can blame our job creators when all the talk in Washington now appears to be about how we can raise taxes on those job creators?

I don't care whether we call it expenditures in our tax code or revenues, what they are are taxes on our job creators, and our job creators have responded by not creating jobs. Mr. Speaker, what they want is they want to know that Washington understands how to solve this problem. They want to know that we know that we can cut our spending, we can cap our future spending.

Mr. Speaker, it's time for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Forty-nine of the 50 States have it. We should have it here in Washington so that we never have to face again the question of how high to raise our debt ceiling and how far to put our children in debt.

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