Massive Tax Increases – Let That Not Be The Legacy Of This Congress

By: Rep. Tom McClintock (Diary)  |  December 16th at 10:22 PM  | 

I commend the Senate for passing the tax relief measure yesterday (HR 4853 – Tax Relief Compromise), and I hope that the House passes it today. According to the CBO, this bill comprises $136 billion in additional spending and $721 billion in tax relief. That means fifteen percent of this bill is spending – the other 85 percent is tax relief: • No across the | Read More »

Creating Unemployment

By: Rep. Tom McClintock (Diary)  |  July 23rd at 11:07 AM  | 

Debate on HR 4213 Remarks by Representative Tom McClintock House Chamber, Washington, D.C. July 22, 2010   M. Speaker:   Anyone who has experienced firsthand the quiet panic that stalks every waking hour of an unemployed family knows how frightening and debilitating is chronic unemployment.  You watch your savings evaporate, you see your children going without the material things their friends enjoy, and you count | Read More »