[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 57 (Wednesday, May 11, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 11, 1994]
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            SOCIAL SECURITY EARNINGS TEST DISCHARGE PETITION

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Madam Speaker, we have heard today that Mr. 
Rostenkowski wants to raise our taxes some more. We have heard about an 
Oklahoma election where we won because this administration is pushing 
taxes and more spending when in fact we are taking money away from our 
senior citizens between the ages of 65 and 69 who continue to work. We 
cannot even let them earn more than a mere $11,000 this year. It is sad 
that our country has come to the point where we punish people for 
working hard.
  Taxes in America are high enough without taxing away another 33 
percent of the working seniors' income. Some seniors even have an 
effective tax rate of 89-percent after last year's tax bill.
  Let me repeat: 89 percent. I ask how long could you survive with an 
89 percent tax rate?
  I ask you to join the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hastert], my good 
friend and colleague who has introduced a discharge petition today to 
pass the Older Americans Freedom to Work Act.

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