[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 5, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4190]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      SUPPORT THE TAX RELIEF BILL

  (Mr. HUTCHINSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HUTCHINSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to strongly support the 
rule and to strongly support the tax relief bill that the House will be 
debating. This, I think, is the most critical feature of the Contract 
With America, and there is nothing more important in this tax relief 
provision than what we offer the American family. We have told the 
American family time and time again ``Your time will come.''
  Every study, every evaluation of the American family says we need to 
have a tax credit for children, and yet it has been delayed and delayed 
and delayed. Over 70 percent of the benefits of this tax cut will go to 
families making less than $75,000 a year who pay only 45.6 percent of 
all the income taxes. A mere 12\1/2\ percent will go to Americans who 
earn over $75,000, and they pay 54.4 percent of the income tax burden.
  This is an eminently fair provision. It is progressive. The 
contract's $500 per child tax credit treats all of America's children 
equally. That is the way they should be treated. We need to pass the 
rule today and we then need to give relief to the American family.

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