[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 64 (Thursday, April 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4338]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              TAX FAIRNESS

  (Mr. VOLKMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. VOLKMER. Mr. Speaker, Members of the House, today is the 92d day 
of the imperial speakership.
  You know, yesterday afternoon, discussing with one of the Gingrich 
Republicans about their tax bill, I advised them that I did not plan to 
vote for that tax bill. I planned to vote against it. He says, ``You 
must be brave to be able to go back to your district after voting 
against such a great tax bill.''
  Well, in the first place, I said, ``I don't think that is a great tax 
bill. Second thing, it has no tax fairness in it. It doesn't lead to 
deficit reduction, but it explodes the deficit in out years.''
  I advised that Gingrich Republican I was going to vote for the 
Gephardt tax bill which limited the $500 child credit to those earning 
$95,000, not $200,000.
 You know, in my district, the Ninth District in Missouri, middle 
income is not $200,000. I do not have very many people earning 
$200,000. Yet the Gingrich Republican says $200,000 are middle income. 
They say that corporations should not have to pay any taxes here in the 
United States.

  I say corporations should pay their fair taxes.
  I voted for a tax fairness yesterday.

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