[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 97 (Friday, July 22, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E]
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[Congressional Record: July 22, 1994]
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               CLINTON TAX BILL PENALIZES MARRIED COUPLES

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                               speech of

                         HON. JOHN T. DOOLITTLE

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 21, 1994

  Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. Speaker, there was an article in the Washington 
Post on July 10, 1994, that many of us will find interesting. The 
headline reads; ``For Many Tax Laws Take the Bliss Out of Being 
Wedded.'' The article states, ``Combined with changes in the earned 
income tax credit, the tax law brings back the so-called marriage 
penalty with a vengeance.''
  Amongst the worst hit by the Clinton marriage penalty are working 
couples at the bottom of the income spectrum. According to the article, 
under certain circumstances, a married couple, both working with two 
children, and with total earnings of $20,000, will pay $3000 more in 
taxes on income this year than they would if they were single.
  Mr. Speaker, this example is one of the results of the Clinton tax 
package imposed upon the people of the United States. We have heard 
this package extolled for economic growth, and yet new job creation is 
running less than one-third the amounts normally seen 3 years after a 
recession ends. And as for deficit reduction, we have yet to bring our 
deficits down to what they were under Ronald Reagan, who has been so 
critized by Mr. Clinton and other liberal Democrats for deficit 
spending.
  Mr. Speaker, to add fuel to the fire, if the Democrats impose their 
socialistic health care plan on us, taxes will dramatically increase, 
further penalizing families and businesses within the United States.

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