[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 167 (Thursday, October 26, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10850]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      TAXES ARE BEING RAISED TODAY

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, let us talk about taxes. In fact let us 
talk about the taxes that are going to be raised today in this Newt 
Gingrich Congress.
  First of course is the sick tax. To be old or disabled in America is 
to have the opportunity to pay more and get less health care. It is a 
tax on being sick to finance a tax break for those who are well, very 
well, very well off.
  Then there is Newt Gingrich's new tax on work. That is right. The 
Americans who earn less than $30,000 will be paying more taxes after 
today, if Mr. Gingrich has his way. To those who are off welfare, who 
walk past the drug dealer to get to the bus stop, to go across town to 
empty the bed pan at the nursing home, to the young mother who is off 
welfare, who is struggling to get child care, who is going across town 
to sack up another burger and fries, to those people taxes are going to 
go up after today. They may call that no new taxes, it is at least 
Newt's taxes.

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