[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 92 (Thursday, June 26, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H4650]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      TAX RELIEF FOR THE WEALTHY VERSUS TAX RELIEF FOR THE NATION

  (Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, today the American public will 
witness the difference between the two parties. Today the Republicans 
will put on the House floor a tax bill that will provide the 
overwhelming amount of benefits to the top 1 percent of the taxpayers 
in this country, taxpayers earning in excess of $250,000, that will get 
$27,000 in tax relief while the lower 60 percent of the taxpayers in 
this country will get only 12 percent of that relief.
  What does that mean? That means that millions of American families 
who work every day, go to work, pay their taxes, starting police 
officers, school teachers and others with children, will not get the 
benefit of this tax bill. Why will they not get the benefit of this tax 
bill? Because the Republicans have decided that this should be tax 
relief for the wealthy as opposed to tax relief for the Nation. They 
have decided that this tax relief should be directed at those who need 
it the least and it should be taken from those who need it the most.
  Mr. Speaker, that is the difference that will be debated on this 
floor today. That is why this legislation eventually will be vetoed by 
the President of the United States.

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