[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 84 (Tuesday, June 17, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H3810]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 THE DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVE: TARGETED TAX BREAKS TO THE MIDDLE CLASS, 
                        NOT TO THE VERY WEALTHY

  (Mr. WYNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WYNN. Mr. Speaker, I rise this afternoon to call for tax 
fairness, a simple proposition. Democrats have supported balanced 
budgets and Democrats support reasonable tax cuts, but not tax breaks 
exclusively for the wealthy.
  The American public needs to know that under the Republican approach 
to tax cuts, the top 35 percent, people making over $247,000 a year, 
will get two-thirds of the benefit. There is a Democratic alternative. 
We take a more Robin Hood approach to tax cuts. We suggest that two-
thirds of the tax benefits ought to go to the middle class, people who 
make $40,000 and $50,000, people who make $20,000 and $30,000.
  So the proposition is really very simple. It is not a question of 
whether we want tax cuts. We want tax cuts. What we want are fair tax 
cuts that benefit most of the Americans in this country. That is the 
Democratic alternative: Targeted tax breaks to the middle class, not to 
the very wealthy.

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